Fredo and Minerva briefly discuss mental health in the Latino community.  We highly recommend watching Judas and the Black Messiah on HBO! and Minerva tells the Story of Mama Tingo, an Agricultural Activist from the Dominican Republic. 


Sources:

 https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/florinda-soriano-munoz-mama-tingo-1921-1974/

https://www.womensmediacenter.com/fbomb/the-female-revolutionary-history-forgot/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weU43hpWhUM

Minerva talks about surfing social media pages. Fredo tells us the story of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.

Show Notes:

Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg by Vanessa K. Valdes

“One of the Fathers of Black History was Afro-Puerto Rican” by NPR

https://www.npr.org/2017/06/30/535046369/the-father-of-black-history-was-afro-puerto-rican

Fredo talks about streaming TV series V the traditional week by week roll out. Minerva tells us about Afro-Cuban film director Sarita Gomez.

It's Black History (every) Month ! This month we will be focusing exclusively on Afro-Latinos and look forward to sharing those stories with you.

Episode Notes:
Sources/Research
https://hiplatina.com/12-historic-afro-latina-figures-you-didnt-learn-about-in-history-class/

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/sara-gomez-a-cuban-filmmaker-who-was-banned-for-exposing-failed-promises-to-afro-cubans

https://remezcla.com/film/tbt-a-look-back-at-the-afro-cuban-films-of-sara-gomez-cubas-first-female-director/

https://www.kweli.tv/programs/sara-gomez-an-afro-cuban-filmmaker?locale=en

Sarita's Work:
https://youtu.be/fNvf6zVZ2PI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-vFJn0WH8s&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjBNyMWg87c&feature=youtu.be

Minerva misses french fries and other things her aging body can't process. Fredo tells us about Latinos in the US Civil War. 

Episode Notes: 

Sources for this episode: 

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/hispanic-americans-civil-warhttps://www.nps.gov/articles/hispanics-and-the-civil-war.htm

Fredo and Minerva discuss their fascination with Murder shows. Minerva shares the story of Lolita Lebron and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party's attack on the capital in 1954.

Episode Notes:
Investigation Discovery

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/

Sources for this episode:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128959759

https://www.history.com/news/gunfire-erupts-inside-u-s-capitol-60-years-ago

https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/puerto-rican-migration-to-the-us/sources/1150

https://lolitasbodega.com/who-is-lolita/

Minerva and Fredo discuss Covid Brain and the new Disney Pixar movie, Soul. Fredo shares a brief overview of Charles Ramírez Berg's "Latino Images in Film Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance.

Episode Notes: 
Soul
https://movies.disney.com/soul

Book
Charles Ramírez Berg's "Latino Images in Film Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance.
https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/berlat

OH RAMON!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkRZYCFv0E

Sonya Renee Taylor
https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/
https://www.instagram.com/sonyareneetaylor/?hl=en

Fredo B. and Minerva Angeles chat about Selena the TV series before getting into the inspirational leader behind the 1780 Incan Rebellion. 

Let us know what Latino history you want to hear about! 
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Show notes: 
Selena: TV Series https://www.netflix.com/title/81022733

As far as anyone knows is a mostly Latino history podcast where each week, your hosts Minerva Angeles and Fredo B take turns sharing some Latino history, bad jokes, and ancestral love. Our podcast starts Tuesday, January, 5th, 2021 with a new episode each week.  Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts so you won’t miss us.