Afrolatinos “The Untaught Story”

Afrolatinos “The Untaught Story” is a documentary television series independently produced by Creador Pictures, LLC. The program will illustrate history and celebrate the rich culture of people in Latin America of African descent. From the story of how and when slaves came to Central and South America to identity issues that still exist in the [...]

Caribana Festival | Toronto, Canada

What started out in 1967 as a just a small and quaint heritage event marking Canada’s centennial year, has grown into the largest cultural festival in North America. Caribana 2010 will start at 12:00 pm on Tuesday, July 13th in the heart of downtown Toronto at Yonge and Dundas Square. Well over a million tourists [...]

Carnaval Salvador | Bahia, Brazil

When most of us think of Carnival, our thoughts understandably stray toward Rio de Janeiro, which is arguably the most beautiful spectacle in the world. According to the Guiness Book of World Records, however, the largest street carnival on earth is actually held in Salvador, the capital of Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia, and the [...]

Carnival Rio de Janeiro | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Brazilian Carnival, or Carnaval is an annual festival in Brazil held four days before Ash Wednesday, the day of fasting and repentance that marks the beginning of Lent. The celebration originated in Rio de Janeiro in 1641, when the city’s bourgeoisie imported the practice of holding balls and masquerade parties from Paris. It originally [...]

Black Paris: African Americans in the City of Light

“J’ai deux amours: Two loves have I, my country and Paris.” – Josephine Baker “In Paris, I lived in all parts of the city — on the Right Bank and the Left, among the bourgeoisie and among les misérables, and knew all kinds of people, from pimps and prostitutes in Pigalle to Egyptian bankers in [...]

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