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📚🌎stories from the diasporas that shaped Latin America
🍴hosts of Sazon Latin Food Festival, Pilon Afro-Latino Food Festival and Chevere Brunches!

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16/09/2026

Nothing will humble you faster than volunteering at a school in El Salvador and accidentally destroying the cilantro garden 😭🇸🇻

She saw an overgrown area, assumed nobody had cleared the weeds and immediately got to work. She was probably feeling proud of everything she had accomplished too.

Then somebody told her the “weeds” were actually cilantro the school had been growing.

Her heart was absolutely in the right place. Her plant identification skills were not.

Be honest: Would you have recognized the cilantro, or would you have been cutting right beside her? 🌿

16/09/2026

On September 6, 2025, Puerto Rican artist Residente performed a free concert before an estimated 180,000 people in Mexico City’s Zócalo.

But the crowd did more than sing.

Palestinian flags filled the plaza as thousands chanted “Palestina libre” and “Alto al genocidio.” Residente, who had encouraged fans to bring Palestinian flags, performed wearing a sweatshirt carrying the same message.

He also welcomed the Abed family, refugees from Gaza who had arrived in Mexico months earlier, onto the stage. The crowd responded by declaring, “The children of Gaza are not a threat.”

While politicians and institutions in the United States continue treating Palestinian freedom like a controversial statement, Mexico City said it with its whole chest.

Palestinian people deserve freedom, dignity and safety. That should never be complicated. 🇵🇸

16/09/2026

🇲🇽 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrated Mexican Independence Day with a message to the city’s Mexican immigrant community: New York is your home.

Speaking during the Grito de Independencia celebration in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Mamdani recognized more than 160 years of Mexican contributions to the city and declared, “¡Que vivan los mexicanos y que viva Puebla York!”

“Puebla York” is a nickname reflecting the powerful connection between New York City and the many Mexican families whose roots trace back to the state of Puebla.

Mamdani also promised that the city’s schools and shelters would remain open regardless of immigration status, telling the crowd that when he looked at them, he saw New Yorkers.

Two days earlier, he reportedly became the first sitting New York City mayor to participate in Sunset Park’s Mexican Independence Day parade, where he served as grand marshal.

Mexico is woven into the story of New York City 🇲🇽🗽

16/09/2026

In 1980s Puerto Rico, your music could become part of your identity.

If you lived for salsa, you might describe yourself as cocolo or cocola. If you preferred rock, heavy metal or other American and British sounds, you were a rockero or rockera. These labels represented more than playlists. They could influence how you dressed, where you spent time and which crowd claimed you.

The divide also carried racial and class stereotypes. Cocolos were often portrayed as Black, working-class and connected to the barrio, while rockeros were stereotyped as whiter, wealthier and more influenced by American culture. Those caricatures never represented everyone, but they reveal how music became tied to deeper ideas about race, class and Puerto Rican identity.

Some people chose a side. Others listened to everything and moved between both worlds.

Do you remember this in Puerto Rico during the ’80s? Were you cocolo, cocola, rockero, rockera, both or something completely different? 🇵🇷🎸🪘

16/09/2026

This 1980 footage captured a United States that was only beginning to recognize the growing political, economic and cultural power of its Latino population.

The 1980 Census counted approximately 14.6 million people of Hispanic origin in the United States. Today, that population has grown to more than 65 million.

But Latino history here did not begin with modern immigration. Latino communities existed across lands that became part of the United States long before the country reached its present borders. Generations of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans and other Latin American communities have helped shape American labor, business, politics, science, sports, food, music and art.

From Roberto Clemente and Celia Cruz to Sonia Sotomayor and countless people whose names never entered the history books, Latinos have always been part of the American story.

Latino history is American history.

🎥 “Hispanic America” (1980)

16/09/2026

Why do Dominicans and Puerto Ricans supposedly have “beef” when the two communities share so much history, culture and lived experience?

On “Banking on Cultura,” host Victoria Jenn Rodriguez and communication expert Jessica Rivera discuss the stereotypes and inherited ideas that have sometimes created tension between the two communities, especially within the New York diaspora.

They connect some of that division to colonialism, colorism, anti-Blackness and generations being conditioned to believe that proximity to whiteness made one community better than another.

But the reality is that Dominicans and Puerto Ricans have lived, worked, created music, built neighborhoods and raised families alongside one another for generations. The relationship is much deeper than the jokes and manufactured rivalry.

Are Dominicans and Puerto Ricans actually beefing, or do they have far more in common than we admit? 🇩🇴🤝🇵🇷

🎥 Banking on Cultura Podcast
Featuring coachjessicarivera and Victoria Jenn Rodriguez | Identity Strategist & Business Coach

16/09/2026

Being Black and being Puerto Rican are not two separate or competing identities.

During her appearance on “Drink Champs,” Puerto Rican entertainer Joseline Hernandez and host N.O.R.E. spoke openly about recognizing themselves as both Black and Puerto Rican.

Their conversation reflects something Afro-Puerto Ricans have always known: Puerto Rican identity is racial and culturally diverse. The island’s history, language, food, music and traditions were all shaped by African people and their descendants.

Still, Afro-Latinos are often expected to choose one side of themselves, prove their Blackness or explain how someone can be both Black and Latino.

Black is a race. Puerto Rican is a cultural and national identity. You can be both, completely and proudly. 🇵🇷✊🏾

16/09/2026

The Puerto Rico episode of Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It” gave viewers a history lesson we rarely receive on television.

Long before slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico in 1873, the island was already home to substantial communities of free Black people and free people of mixed African ancestry. Some purchased their freedom, received it through manumission or were born free, while others resisted enslavement by escaping and forming independent communities.

Season 2, Episode 7, titled “ ?,” travels to Puerto Rico and explores the island’s African roots through its history, spirituality, music and culture, especially in Loíza. Written by Nuyorican poet Lemon Andersen and directed by Spike Lee, the episode made one thing clear: Black history is Puerto Rican history.

Puerto Rico’s story cannot be fully understood without the free and enslaved Africans whose descendants helped build its culture and identity. 🇵🇷✊🏾

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16/09/2026

During Mexico’s 216th anniversary of the Grito de Independencia, President Claudia Sheinbaum used one of the country’s most important national ceremonies to recognize communities often left out of the traditional story.

From the balcony of the National Palace, Sheinbaum honored Mexico’s Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples, Mexican migrants and Antonia Nava, also known as “La Generala.”

Nava was an insurgent from Guerrero who participated in Mexico’s struggle for independence alongside her husband, Nicolás Catalán, and forces led by José María Morelos and Vicente Guerrero.

The ceremony was also reportedly hosted for the first time by Indigenous, Afro-Mexican and migrant representatives.

“¡Vivan los pueblos indígenas y afromexicanos! ¡Vivan nuestras hermanas y hermanos migrantes!”

A powerful reminder that Mexican history and identity have always been Indigenous, Black, migrant and deeply diverse. 🇲🇽

🎥 Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

16/09/2026

Happy Independence Day, Mexico! 🇲🇽

On September 16, Mexico commemorates the beginning of its fight for independence from Spanish colonial rule in 1810.

President Claudia Sheinbaum marked the occasion with her second Grito de Independencia from the balcony of the National Palace, honoring the heroes and heroines who fought for freedom while celebrating the Indigenous peoples, Afro-Mexican communities and migrants who continue to shape the country.

From Mexico to every corner of the diaspora, today we celebrate the history, culture, resilience and spirit of the Mexican people.

¡Que viva México libre, independiente y soberano!

¡Viva México! 🇲🇽❤️

🎥 Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

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