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The Latino and Afro-Latino history that gets left out of the textbook — Garifuna resistance and survival, Arturo Schomburg building an archive nobody else would, and what the Battle of Puebla actually was.

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Afro-Mexican History: Mexico’s Third Root, Finally Counted

Mexico counted its Black population for the first time in 2020 — 2,576,213 people. The heritage is five centuries old; the count is five years old.
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Arab Last Names in Latin America: Why So Many Latinos Are Lebanese

600,000 Levantine migrants crossed to the Americas before 1914. They were labelled “turcos” — and that label was not the friendly thing it later became.
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 Arturo Schomburg: The AfroPuerto Rican Who Saved Black History

A teacher told Arturo Schomburg that Black people had no history. He spent his life proving her wrong — and built the archive that anchors Harlem today.
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Juneteenth AfroLatino: 5 Powerful Truths History Erased

Most enslaved Africans never landed in the U.S. — they landed in Latin America. Why Juneteenth's story of Black freedom is a hemispheric one.

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Is Brazil Latino? Why the US Government Says No

Brazil is in Latin America and most Brazilians in the US call themselves Latino — but the federal definition excludes them. A 2020 census error revealed the gap.