Music pours down in Lima
The music of Peru's capital: from the cumbia chicha bands of the local huekos, the punk-rock revival, electrocumbia sounds, and much more.
Americas
Antiracism policy in Latin America
The renewed focus on the struggle for Latin American Afrodescendant rights. A conference report.
Africa is a Radio: Episode #14
2015’s last episode of Africa is a Radio features a snippet from an extended interview with
There is nothing to do in Bogotá
Festejo Pachone is a crowdfunded music estival in Bogotá, Colombia that disproves the perception of the city is culturally lacking.
Guatemala’s blackface president
Jimmy Morales, Guatemala's new president, is basically a proxy for the country's very powerful lobby of rightwing former military men.
Ride with Malitia Malimob
Rapper Chino’o talks about everything from immigration to police brutality in the U.S., and the future of Somalia.
Sandra Bland and The Beatles
Bland, who died in police custody after a traffic stop in Texas, embodied a rare charismatic self-possession that disrupts social orders.
What is ‘Champeta Urbana’?
An interview with musician, Kevin Flórez, about how a music imported by West African sailors to 1970s Colombia became the soundtrack of his city, Cartagena.
Music, Tradition and Race
The combined sounds of indigenous groups from northern Colombia with the drums imported with African slaves in Cartagena, once the biggest slave port of the American continent.
The Obama Sevens
A complete run-down of all the craziness going down in Kenya ahead of Barack Obama’s visit.
What about this cartoon
What happened when an Argentinean cartoonist took inspiration from an iconic moment in African-American struggle, replaced the black athletes with monochrome white figures to make a point about gay rights.
It’s about more than Mexico
How about giving US presidential aspirant, Donald Trump, some reading material on what the United States has brought to Latin America.
Dave Chappelle’s mother worked to free Congo
Yvonne Seon, later a college professor, thought Lumumba was a “decisive leader” that “cared deeply about his people."
Baltimore Blues
Rather than spending money to fix massive inequalities, the U.S. funds militarizing the police, incarcerating black youth, and state violence.
The necessity to manifest our own experiences
An interview with the director of the first-ever feature-length film in Quechua, spoken by many of the indigenous people of the South American Andes.
Typical Colombians
"Manos Sucias," produced by Spike Lee, is set in Buenaventura, Colombia’s biggest city on the Pacific Ocean and also the country’s biggest port. The city is 90% black.
The Black Rhythms of Perú
The influence of people of African descent in the history of Peruvian music are overlooked. This documentary begins to set the record straight.
The music of Santiago, Chile
Chilean musicians argue that their feeling of isolation, combined with a higher than average internet penetration helped create and foster a local “scene" of musicians able to make a living from music.
The Grammys are irrelevant
Why are the Grammys so clueless about what is contemporary Latin pop music? They keep handing out awards to veterans like Ruben Blades or Vicente Fernández.
Bogotá’s Music
Teca, how we call our own Latin American jukebox, plans to bring you the newest, most interesting artists from the region.