Editor’s Note: This feature is part of CNN Style’s new series Hyphenated, which explores the complex issue of identity among minorities in the United States. Raelis Vasquez, a New York and New ...

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Brooklyn-based Dominican composer and guitarist Yasser Tejeda has explored myriad ways to mesh Afro-Dominican roots music with sophisticated modern arrangements while maintaining its cultural ...

Allah says Manual. You have a pocket spaniel. I was born in the Dominican Republic. Nowadays, Benito Vdma speaks mostly English, but as a Dominican Spanish is his native tongue. When I was born over ...

About 6 million adults in the United States identify as Afro Latino, a distinction with deep roots in colonial Latin America, according to a new report by Pew Research Center. That’s about 2% of the ...

Growing up as a first-gen teen in Queens during the '90s, my Black Dominican immigrant mother would routinely say things to me like, "Tu saliste perfecta, saliste mas clara que yo, pero arreglate esa ...

As the rap sound continues to make waves across the globe — often far from the Black communities that birthed it — a young artist is emerging in the international scene, who is using the genre as a ...

When Sabina Matos came to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic at the age of 20 without knowing any English, she didn't think she would be staying. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

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Ease and joy are two things that Carolina Contreras, founder and CEO of Miss Rizos, hopes to bring to people through her upcoming products designed for curly and Afro-textured hair. Subscribe to read ...

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