AfroLatino Forum

Today, we celebrate the birthday of our founder, Miriam Jiménez Román. She left us with an abundance of wisdom, and today we’re sharing a powerful quote from her:

"So many of us that grew up in that time were attracted by the civil rights movement and Black Power, by Malcolm and all of this stuff—is because it gave us a language... It gave us a history. It gave us an understanding that it wasn’t an individual thing but it was a systemic problem. And that made it much easier for me to breathe. It really was like being able to breathe..."

This reflection is from an interview she did with Dr. Johanna Fernández.

Want to dive deeper into Miriam's world or explore her writings? Head over to our Pensamientos blog, where we have featured a collection of a few of her pieces. Link in bio or below!

https://www.afrolatinoforum.org/pensamientos

📣 Participant call 📣

This project aims to better understand an often under-examined dimension of Latino political life, and hopes to contribute to ongoing conversations about visibility, representation, and inclusion

To participate: http://qrup.org/HQ3i8t

For more information and/or questions email: [email protected]

📣 Participant Call 📣

Gen X and Millennial Afro-Nicaraguans’ Information Habits, read more on the flyer

http://go.umd.edu/2026AfroNicaStudy

Any plans this weekend nyc?!

Fragile Awakening Part 2 is opening this weekend with programming for everyone

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fragile-awakening-part-two-tickets-1988775675582?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

📣Participant call 📣

This Auburn Research study will ask Afro-Latinas and Black Hispanics about their experience to inform new mental health interventions. Take the survey if you are eligible and contact the primary investigator: Dr. Brian McCabe at [email protected] with any questions

Website: https://aub.ie/AfroLatinaDualIdentityStudy

🚨New Pensamientos Blog Resource🚨

With ICE becoming more prominent in our communities it’s important to be informed of your rights and how to handle an encounter with them.

The information is provided by Shamieh Law where they answer these questions: What Can You Legally Do Against ICE? What if ICE Stops Me on the Street? What if ICE Tries to Search My Home? What if ICE Stops My Car? How Can I Prepare for an ICE Encounter? What Can I Do if ICE Stops My Neighbor? What Should I Tell Someone Being Detained by ICE? How Can I Safely Record ICE? Is it Legal to Report Where ICE Is? Should I Speak to ICE? How Can I Help My Vulnerable Neighbors?

https://www.afrolatinoforum.org/pensamientos-blog/what-do-i-do-if-ice-is-in-my-community

Stay informed and remember immigrants have rights!

We are honored to share that is supporting us, afrolatin@ forum, with a new grant!

As we celebrate our 19th year and look toward our 20th anniversary, this pivotal funding sustains our mission to advance policy, education, and advocacy for Afro-Latinx communities from Brooklyn to the national stage.

Being an almost fully volunteer-powered grassroots organization, this support validates our commitment to collective liberation and centering Blackness in everything we do. Brooklyn Org is backing our mission, and we’d love for you to stand with them.

Every dollar helps our all-volunteer team continue the calls for justice. Join us in spreading love, and justice, the Brooklyn way!

Support the work here: https://www.afrolatinoforum.org/donate

Honoring a legacy, centering the future.

Our friends at the Program in Africana Studies of Bryn Mawr College invite you to the Second Annual Miriam Jiménez Román Memorial Lecture in Afro-Latinx Studies.

This year the guest is Dr. Melanie Y. White who will take us on a profound exploration of “Sovereign Mosquitia.” Dr. White will dive into how Black and Afro-Indigenous women on the Miskitu Coast use art and “intimate sovereignty” to refuse colonial violence and reclaim their autonomy.

WHEN: Wednesday, March 18th
TIME: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
WHERE: Quita Woodward Room (1st Floor, Old Library), Bryn Mawr College

This series pays homage to the late, trailblazing Dr. Miriam Jiménez Román, continuing her mission to center Black Latinx histories within a hemispheric worldview. You can read some pieces by or about Miriam in our Pensamientos Blog (www.afrolatinoforum.org/pensamientos)

🚨New Pensamientos Blog Post🚨

Legacy: What Miriam Jiménez Román Taught Me About Race & Afro-Latinx Studies

Follow Natasha S. Alfred’s conversation with our founder Miriam Jiménez Román from June 2020 where they navigate race during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement through an Afro-Latinx lens

https://www.afrolatinoforum.org/pensamientos-blog/legacy-what-miriam-jimnez-romn-taught-me-about-race-amp-afro-latinx-studies

A 15-20 minute insightful read, let us know your thoughts and/or comments

The Black Women Shaping Afrofutures Forum is a global convening designed to unite Black women from the Global South and the diaspora as leaders, thinkers, and architects of just futures. Bringing together activists, scholars, artists, and policymakers, the Forum fosters strategic dialogue, transnational solidarity, and collective action toward racial, gender, economic, and climate justice. Join us for the 3rd Edition and be part of a space where political imagination becomes strategy and connection becomes movement.

Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/3o-edition-black-women-shaping-afrofutures-forum-tickets-1983128207854?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios