#Afrodominican

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🩵Nicole HCs!

-She became kind of friends with Michael in middle school. They don't hang out super often but one time Nicole DID fake date Michael to get her parents to stop asking about if she had a boyfriend

-Very butch very lesbian she's known since around fifth grade but repressed literally everything until eighth grade

-She had a toxic codependent homoerotic friendship in middle school with this one girl but when she tried to confess to her everything went to shit

-She has a pet pitbull! Name HC I constantly change but she's very old and very sweet <3

-Her mom is afrodominican and her dad is Filipino. She can kinda speak Spanish okay and is trying to better learn cebuano/bisaya for her dad

-She also has a younger brother named Matteo! Matteo is around 10 and he thinks Michael is so cool and plays video games with him

-LOVES Tracy Chapman that's probably hee favorite singer ever

-She kinda hangs out with the group sometimes because of Michael and Jeremy. She jokingly flirts with all the ladies but she DOES think Chloe is super pretty

-Used to draw a lot when she was younger, doesn't much anymore

-Cooks breakfast in the morning after sleepovers, has a lot with Christine because she was the first out of the girls she because pretty close with and then kinda branched out to the others

-Has kissed Madeline before ( @rebuke-me lolol)

-Likes photography! Only really as a hobby but she has some silly photos of the guys but SO MANY silly/just pretty ones of the girls

-She often does a lot of random little things at once. Like she'll be doing one thing and then accidentally start doing a bunch of other tasks before she ends up starting on that one thing

-Learned to sew from her mother, fixes her own clothes if they have rips or anything

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Afro-Dominican dancer, Dominican Republic, by Charles Fréger

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🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #Artist: @tiffanyalfonseca #Artwork: "No te hagas la Santa” 2020 Oil Sticks and glitter on Stonehenge paper 22x30 inches • • www.tiffanyalfonseca.com "Tiffany Alfonseca (b. 1994) is a Bronx- based Dominican-American mixed media artist who creates vibrant and colorful artworks that celebrates Black and Afro-Latinx diasporic culture. Alfonseca continuously taps into her Afro-Dominican roots and leverages it as a conceptual cantilever that provides a dynamic framework for her artistic practice. Moreover, her work aims to visually articulate that the Black and Afro-Latinx diaspora does not exist within a monolith, but that these communities are a cultural cornucopia that is vast, varied, and complex. Alfonseca’s artwork is an intricate combination of beauty, diversity, and multilingualism that exemplifies the strength of the Black and Afro-Latinx diaspora." #TiffanyAlfonseca #AfroDominican #BronxArtist #painting #BlackGirlArtGeeks https://www.instagram.com/p/CZbELhSAS1A/?utm_medium=tumblr

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This is Olivia, that loves sunflowers and dancing around🌻 The last of my caribbean girls for now!

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Carlos A. Cooks was born in the Dominican Republic on June 23, 1913 to James Henry Cooks and Alice Cooks, who were originally from the neighboring island of St. Martin. His education took place mostly in Santo Domingo until moving to New York in 1929 where he went on to higher learning. Cooks was known for his love of sports and his expertise in boxing. His intellect was recognized from an early age and he attended the leadership school in the Voodoo Sacré Society. Cooks' involvement in the UNIA comes as no surprise as both his uncle and father were among the many St. Martiners who were members of the Marcus Garvey-led organization. He was a key link in the history of Black American nationalism between Marcus Garvey before him and Malcolm X, whom he influenced. Carlos Cooks administered the Advance Division of the UNIA after Marcus Garvey was deported. He founded the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement. The African Nationalist Pioneer Movement Born out of Garvey's United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement (ANPM) was started by Carlos Cooks on June 23, 1941.[3] He envisioned the ANPM as "an educational, inspirational, instructive, constructive and expansive society... composed of people desirous of bringing about a progressive, dignified, cultural, fraternal and racial confraternity among the African peoples of the world." It was Carlos Cooks who coined the phrase “BUY BLACK” as an economic solvency in the various African Communities throughout America. It was Carlos Cooks who first initiated the concept of natural hair as an issue of racial pride through his ANPM’s MISS NATURAL STANDARD OF BEAUTY CONTEST. It was Carlos Cooks who first perfected an oratorical art of street speaking from his step-ladder, all over Harlem, but, especially on 125th Street and 7th Avenue. It was Carlos Cooks who first defined the difference between the terms Black and/or African as opposed to “Negro” and fought to have the latter word abrogated as a racial classification. Cooks never receive his proper recognition. He died May 5th, 1966 in Harlem. #carloscooks #afrodominican #blackpeople #africanhistorymonth #veryblack https://www.instagram.com/p/B8DmIyiFFN2/?igshid=yv9r5by9xqak

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Happy birthday, The Kid Mero!

Joel Martinez (born May 15, 1983), professionally known as The Kid Mero, is a Dominican-American writer, comedian, TV personality, voice actor, YouTube personality, music blogger and Twitter personality. He rose to prominence alongside fellow Bronx native Desus Nice with their Complex TV46-episode podcast Desus vs. Mero, which first premiered on December 18, 2013. As of season 5, he is a cast member of MTV2's Guy Code with Desus Nice.[1][2] He was the co-host of Viceland's Desus & Mero talk show alongside Desus until June 2018, and currently co-hosts Desus & Merowhich premiered on February 21, 2019 on Showtime.[3]

Mero was born in Washington Heights, Manhattan to Dominican immigrant parents, and the family moved to the Bronx when he was young.[4]Martinez is Afro-Latino and grew up speaking Spanish. His childhood nickname was "Romiro," which is the origin of the moniker Mero.[4]

He realized he was talented at comedy from a young age but was not particularly interested in televised comedy or stand-up comedians growing up.[4][5]

Mero graduated from I.S. 117 in the Bronx. [4]

Mero previously worked as a teaching aide at a school in The Bronx. He later began writing for Vice's music platform Noisey in 2012. His first article for them was published online on November 14, 2012; it was a review of Canadian electronic music duo Crystal Castles's album III.[6] In total, he wrote 69 articles for Noisey between November 2012 and March 2014, most of which were album and mixtape reviews, and all written in caps lock.[7]

In December 2014, MTV announced that The Kid Mero and Desus Nice would be joining the cast of Guy Code for season 5, along with 11 other new cast members.[8][9] They appeared on the first episode of season 5, which was originally aired on January 14, 2015.[10]

On August 30, 2016, Viceland announced Desus & Mero which premiered on October 17, 2016. The half-hour show ran Monday-Thursday, hosted by the Bronx-reared comedic duo.[11][12] Its finale aired on June 28, 2018. Mero currently co-hosts Desus & Mero which premiered on February 21, 2019 on Showtime.[3]

More Information on The Kid Mero

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Firelei Báez, Untitled, 2018. Gouache on paper, 70″ x 118″ 

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🎨🎶💃🏾 #ArtIsAWeapon Today @brooklynmuseum @target First Saturdays present "¡Pa’lante!" celebrating and honoring “…the resilience and diversity of our Latinx communities” featuring performances by All-women #drumming collective @legacywomennyc, #AfroCubanMusic ensemble @ElSeptetoSantiaguero and #Latinpop #HipHop artist @br0nz3_g0dd3ss, a conversation with #artist #poet @ceciliavicuna, a community talk “En La Union Esta La Fuerza (In Unity There Is Strength)” about #PuertoRico/#HurricaneMaria, #salsa by @balmirdance and much more. #Free 5:00PM-10:00PM 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238 Full schedule: www.brooklynmuseum.org ____________________⠀ “Starting at 5 pm, visitors should enter through the front of the Museum. Please keep in mind that there could be lines for entry, which may be limited once we reach maximum capacity. Check out our Stories day-of to stay up-to-date on the evening!”

#TargetFirstSaturdays #BrooklynMuseum #BKMuseum #LatinxArt #LatinxCommunities #AfroCuban #AfroPuertoRican #AfroDominican #Music #Performances #Exhibits #FreeInNYC #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 (at Brooklyn Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoleB-QH6Fv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=sqyfrmm6f6w0

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Xiomara: hair goals! She loves walking around the city and taking pictures of everything. 

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Weekend Vibes... #chillvibes #chillmode😎 #weekendvibes Have a great weekend! Reposted from @iamafrica_art JM: When I think of identity, I think of our bodies and souls and the influences of family, culture, and community - the ingredients that make us. — Janet Mock ••• Story: TA: Tiffany Alfonseca (b. 1994) is a Bronx- based #Dominican-American #mixedmedia #artist who creates vibrant and colorful artworks that celebrates Black and Afro-Latinx diasporic culture. Alfonseca continuously taps into her #AfroDominican roots and leverages it as a conceptual cantilever that provides a dynamic framework for her artistic practice. Moreover, her work aims to visually articulate that the Black and Afro-Latinx diaspora does not exist within a monolith, but that these communities are a cultural cornucopia that is vast, varied, and complex. Alfonseca’s artwork is an intricate combination of beauty, diversity, and multilingualism that exemplifies the strength of the Black and #AfroLatinx diaspora.“ — TiffanyAlfonseca ••• i.c.: IG @TiffanyAlfonseca, Artsy ••• #internationalafricanminds #TiffanyAlfonseca #beautifulminds #inspiringafricanminds #artnewsafrica #contemporaryafricanart #contemporaryartcollectors #artivist #artcurator #artiststudio #creative #blackartspace #blackempowerment #supportblackart #dopeblackart #africandigitalart #weafricanartists #visualtherapy #blm #blmprotest #africa #afro (at Boston, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CENW_tynfRd/?igshid=6p060lu3e52r

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Lifting our Black Leaders Up. Changing the narratives. Giving voice to power. Mauricio Báez was the great union leader of the Eastern region of the Dominican Republic in the 1940s. He organized the workers in the great unions of the time and for his struggles he faced prison and exile. He was at the head of the labor movement known as "the great sugar strike" indefinite, which took place in the sugar enclaves of San Pedro de Macorís and La Romana since January 7, 1946, in demand for salary increase and compliance with the day of eight hours of work. Mauricio Báez, the legendary leader of the Dominican labor movement, was hanged on a farm in Arroyo Arenas, Havana, on the night of December 8, 1950, by hit men in the service of the Trujillo dictatorship. Days before his murder, Báez gave a public statement on the La Hora Campesina program, broadcast by RHC Cadena Azul and directed by Dr. Héctor Cotubanamá C. Henríquez, representative to the Chamber for the province of Oriente, against the Trujillo dictatorship. In that intervention, he denounced a network of Trujillo spying made up of some of the people who were later accused of committing the crime. In other appearances, he accused the head of Business of the Dominican Republic in Cuba and renowned Trujillo agent, Happy W. Bernardino, of personally committing crimes against Dominican opponents. Born in Palenque, San Cristóbal, on September 22, 1909. After his death, at the age of 41, he became a legend of the Dominican labor movement. Today a Metro station and a legendary club in the city of Santo Domingo are named after him. (acento) #365black #blacklikeme #afrodominican #panafrican #veryblack #upliftingblackvoices #blackcaribbeanvoices #blackwriters #culturalworker #artactivists #whitesupremacyisterrorism #mauriciobáez https://www.instagram.com/p/B8v_14DJ3Qu/?igshid=1f8ogko72kepu