El Festival del Merengue de Santo Domingo [Santo Domingo Merengue Festival] will take place on July 26-31, 2009. This festival attracts the genre’s best talent from around the world.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Merengue Festival
El Festival del Merengue de Santo Domingo [Santo Domingo Merengue Festival] will take place on July 26-31, 2009. This festival attracts the genre’s best talent from around the world.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Amazing Hairdos
The IX Hairdressers and Afro-hairdos contest, “Knitting Hopes” took place last weekend, (May 11-12, 2013) in Cali, Colombia, sponsored by the Programa Nacional de Concertación del Ministerio de Cultura.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Germans in the Caribbean?
The History of Germans, Slaves and Suriname
Adenstein, Berlijn and Halle in Saxen sound like the names of German Cities. And names as Duttenhofer, Krieger and Kuhn sound like German family names. But these name were also the names of slave plantations and are also family names of black people in Suriname.
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Cuban Music
Life in Senegal has a soundtrack. Walking the streets of Dakar, one can almost hear brassy sounds emanating from men swaggering past in long tunics, and drum beats from women dressed head to toe in brightly colored fashions.
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
4 Myths We Stop
Acomprehensive list that touches on the relentless insults — both blatant and subtle — that many black women face on their daily beauty journeys, Gradient Lair makes it very clear that conforming to standards of Eurocentric beauty is so 2012
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