Posts by Kevin
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern portion of the Island of Hispaniola sharing with Haiti in the Caribbean. Unlike Cuba and Puerto Rico, the story for the Dominican Republic is not the same. Since the western portion of the island was a French Colony and is now modern-day Haiti created a unique story unlike the…
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Like many other nations throughout the America’s Colombia was under the control of Spain, and today Colombia’s Afro-Colombian population is the second largest black population in Latin America. The only nation to be named after Christopher Columbus, most of the population lies within the mountainous interior. Africans were imported from the 1520s into settlements along…
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Located in Central America, Panama is in a very sought after and distinctive location in the Western Hemisphere. A former Spanish colony the story behind this nation is unique compared to the others in terms of global politics and the black population. The isthmus of Panama was formed approximately three million years ago forming a…
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Mexico formerly part of the Mayan Empire steeped in culture and history which consist of the largest Spanish speaking populace in the world, unfortunately ranks number two amongst the post slavery nations to do a disturbingly excellent job of erasing the black presence in their country. Like many former Spanish colonies, Mexico focused on the…
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Argentina a surprise too many to see this country mentioned on the site, since there seems to be no black populace in this country. Argentina took Mexico’s omission of blacks and took it a step further but not exactly genocide. Like other Spanish colonies, Argentina, did participate in the slave trade where a third of…
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Famous Africans, Afro Caribbean’s, and Afro Latino’s throughout U.S. History and Popular Culture Contributions of Africans, Afro Caribbean’s, and Afro Latinos to the United States During the American Revolutionary War, an army regiment of Haitian Soldiers fought in Savannah Georgia assisting the Americans. During the late 1700s France was the richest empire from the vast…
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The United States of America The United States of America was created when the colonies wanted to secede from the British Empire, due to high taxation, this cause was one of the primary reasons of the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War followed the events of the Boston Tea Party after the Stamp Act and…
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Ethiopia is a landlocked nation in the horn of Africa that is surrounded by the nations of Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti. Ethiopia has the proud distinction to be one of two nations throughout Africa is not colonized, the other Liberia, however it was occupied by Italy. “Ethiopia is one of the…
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Located in Eastern Africa, Kenya borders South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda and Tanzania. Kenya also boarders inland Lake Victoria to the west and the Indian Ocean to the southeast. The Great Rift Valley also runs through Kenya along with neighboring countries of Ethiopia and Tanzania. The importance of this region is said the first fossils…
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South Africa the most southern portion of Africa is like no other. The system of Apartheid distances itself from other African nations. South Africa is a racially diverse nation where 80.7% are Black African, 8.8% Coloured, 7.9% White, and 2.6% Asian. Along with the diversity it has something different in terms of other nations of…
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