Depriving Ourselves of Good

What happens when you block the good that wants to enter your life? Are you sending it all back? Are you rejecting the ideas that are brilliant, afraid to take a risk, afraid to go for it, afraid of endings, or afraid to really have what you deserve? In today’s episode I meditate on this…

5 Reasons Women Can’t Be Friends

5 Reasons Why Women Can’t Be Friends ~ Ep. 50 In this episode I talk about why some women can’t be friends.   Watch youtube video: https://youtu.be/hpO_pNMQXOo SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE! Please leave your comments -- LIKE my pages and leave your reviews on Itunes and Soundcloud. Love, Ali   Podcast available FREE on ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-afrolatina-show-podcast/id1243885137?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4…

Announcing the Afrolatina Show Podcast & Vlog!

In the spirit of walking in gratitude... I am grateful for the insane amount of creativity and productivity I am manifesting for 2017. I am grateful for this wave that feels more like a tsunami of inspiration I am riding right now. I am creating content! I am filling up new journals. I am asking…

TONIGHT! NO COVER ~ Pre-party for Afrolatinos going the HBO Latino Film Festival!

Come celebrate one of the hugest achievements in #afrolatinos history! We will not be silenced. We are 200 million strong! JOIN US TONIGHT!!! Vamos a bailar! A celebrar!   FREE to get in! Food & drink specials!   HBO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERE ~ Saturday, October 14th at 4:00PM (SHARP)  Get your tickets: NY LATINO FILM FEST TIX…

#AFROLATINASTOKNOW ~ #8: AMARA LA NEGRA

#8: AMARA “LA NEGRA" #AFROLATINASTOKNOW *** When I decided to share my list of #afrolatinastoknow I did so because it was important for me that our little black and brown girls, high school girls, college girls see themselves reflected. I am celebrating women that I admire for their scholarship and contributions to fighting for, defending and owning…

#AFROLATINASTOKNOW ~ #7: Sueli Carneiro

#7: Sueli Carneiro #AFROLATINASTOKNOW *** Born Sueli Carneiro Jacoel in São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Carneiro has dedicated her life to fighting for the rights of black women! In 1992, she and many Afrolatina and Afrocaribbean Women leaders met for the first time at The Conference of Black Latin American and Caribbean Women which was held…

#AFROLATINASTOKNOW ~ #6: Elizabeth Acevedo

  #6: Elizabeth Acevedo #AFROLATINASTOKNOW *** The next Afrolatina I am honoring is someone I had been hearing so much about over the years, yet never read her work. Then I googled her. And like any good online stalker I fell in love with her and her work. The first piece I ever heard by…

#AFROLATINASTOKNOW ~ #5: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro

#5: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro #AFROLATINASTOKNOW *** Yolanda Pizarro was born in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico and was raised by her grandparents. She began writing at an early age in school newsletters and newspapers and won drawing and essay competitions at the Colegio San Vicente Ferrer in Cataño. In 2004, Arroyo published her first book of short…

#AFROLATINASTOKNOW ~ #4: Edwidge Danticat

Follow The next Afrolatina is an incredible writer of Haitian descent. I include her as an Afrolatina by choice! One that there is no argument on. Edwidge Danticat and I (a writer of Dominican descent) share an island. In my life work, the Afrolatinos doc, it was/is important for us to include Haiti in the…

#AFROLATINASTOKNOW ~ #3: Goyo

@Goyocqt, lead singer and front woman of the #afrocolombian #hiphop group #chocquibtown is not only a fierce badass, but I am honored to call her mi hermana, representing, Buenaventura, El Pacifico, Quibdo, el Choco Colombia. Goyo is a mother, spirit sister and incredible human being. This Grammy award winning #singer #songwriter #producer #rapper #artist is…