Graffiti in Inwood (Photo by Pedro A. Regalado)

Dismantling Anti-Blackness Together

Two struggles—Black liberation and immigrant rights—are intertwined and must be confronted together, which means acknowledging there is racism in the project ...
Guerrilla women march down Calle El Conde, Santo Domingo, April 1965. The dark-skinned Black woman marching in the front line (center) is Agustina Rivas, aka Tina Bazuca. (Fondo Milvio Pérez, Archivo General de la Nación, Dominican Republic)

Afro-Dominicanas Against Death

Erased from the archive, the remarkable story of one Afro-Dominican revolutionary illuminates the Dominican colonial desire for whiteness at the ...
An agent of the Dominican Republic's Specialized Border Security Corps (CESFRONT) stands at the border with Haiti in Dajabon, July 15, 2011. (Sandra Foyt / Shutterstock)

Making the Dominican Republic Great Again?

The Dominican government has always aligned itself with white supremacism, following the United States’ lead on immigration policies towards Haitians ...
BLM protests occurred across the globe last year, a reminder that the fight for Black lives is needed everywhere. Here, a protester in the United States holds a sign proclaiming “Black Lives Matter” in Spanish. (Park Miller, Wikimedia Commons)

Remembering Joane Florvil, Victim of Global Anti-Blackness

Four years after her death in Chile, a Haitian migrant’s story offers an urgent reminder of the deadly proportions of ...
U.S. Marines during the occupation of the Dominican Republic in 1916 (Wikimedia Commons)

One Hundred Years After the Occupation

A century later, the legacies of the U.S. military intervention of the Dominican Republic persist ...