Given the recent rapidly increasing Latino emigrant population to the U.S., the number of Afro Latinos also is increasing. "African American" currently could be a recent emigrant from Honduras, Colombia, or Mexico requiring social services, employment opportunities, or political representation that in the past had gone to African Americans born in the United States. How do these `new `African Americans fit into the traditional "American Dream"? International scholars will analyze this new national reality and its implications for civil rights, human rights, and ethnic studies programs within the U.S.
Friday, Wednesday, March 2nd, 5.30 - 8.00pm
The Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College CUNY Hunter College, CUNY 695 Park Avenue, Room 424 Hunter North New York, NY 10021 (Enter on 68th street between Lexington and Park, North side of the street).Free Admission
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Panelists:
- Howard Dodson, (Keynote) Chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of The New York Public Library.
- Monifa Akinwole-Bandele, Executive Director for Change the Game, former Field Director for Right to Vote and coordinating committee member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
- Manuela Arciniegas, Founder & Director of The Legacy Circle, a social justice cultural arts project dedicated to empowering youth and teaching artists of African descent.
- Mario L. Baeza, Chairman and CEO The Baeza Group, LLC, founder and Executive Chairman V-Me Media, Inc.
- Celeo Alvarez Casildo, President of Comité Consultivo del Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana(Central American integration Commitee) and the President of the Organization of the Black Central American Communities Organización Negra Centroamericana (ONECA).
- Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow on Race, Crime, and Justice at the Vera Institute of Justice. Her areas of research include Urban & Community Sociology; Urban Planning; and Race & Ethnic Relations
- Jesús Chucho Garcia has authored over 20 books on Afro-American, African themes and of the Caribbean, especially on the cimarrón aje. He is the general coordinator of the Fundación Afroamerica Michael Gomez, Director of the Association for the Study of Worldwide African Diaspora and professor of History, and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University
- Zulia Mena, founder of the Consejo Colombiano de Mujeres Negras, COMUN, (The Colombian Council of Black Women) and co-founder of the Ethnic Movement of Black Women.
- Romero Jorge Rodríguez, executive board member of Alianza Estratégica de Afro descendientes de America Latina y el Caribe (Afro-descendants Strategic Alliance of Latin America and the Caribbean)
- Esmeralda Simmons, Esq., Director of the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, practicing attorney and activist
- Ibrahim Sundiata, Samuel & Augusta Spector Professor of History at Brandeis University, MA and former chair of the Department of History at Howard University
In collaboration with the Global Afro-Latino & Caribbean Initiative (GALCI)
