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Monday, May 28, 2012

Expanding the Movement

So as you know last year we finished our 1st ever TV series and are now in talks with networks to have it broadcasted this Fall. We are uber excited with its success and we have a few other projects set to role out.

My one woman show, Black Latina: The Play, is back with a spin. For the first time ever it will be broken down to an ensemble cast and directed by an well known theater director whom last project starred Lauren Velez (another fellow Black Latina). We are shooting a t-shirt campaign with an amazing array of Black Latinas in the industry and will have a reading for our first feature film.

We have set to push quarter incentives and put our money where our mouth is. The first quarter of the year we acknowledged African American AIDS Awareness and this quarter we're focusing on Autism Awareness within our communities. These diseases are hitting us all hard and it us important we take action against them. We will be unveiling video campaigns of projects, behind the scenes of shows, rehearsals and many other fun company goodies giving you a window into what we do and how
we operate.

My sister company, Shaniece Entertainment, has one of its films due to go up this Summer and one of its plays this Fall. We continue to get people who believe in and want to help out the Movement because the cause touches home for them.

We also have some college performances pending which would truly be a dream come true for us!

The more people we touch the bigger the cause gets and that is what we want; for the world to know we are here and are ready to show and prove!

CSR



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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Assimilate vs being Ethnocentric

I love being a Black Latina on many different levels it means a lot to me and I wear it with pride.

But when is it too much or is it ever too much?

Dictionary.com states to assimilate is "to conform or take in as ones own" but being ethnocentric is "the belief in superiority of ones ethnic group or culture".

There has truly been a shift in our communities from being forced or willingly assimilating in periods such as slavery and the surge of Hispanic/Latino immigration in the 20s-50s . We were force to change our names as depicted in Alex Haley's "Roots" to just taking in American culture and yearning to fit in. The flip side of the shift started with the 60s Black is Beautiful Movement and research proving life began in our homeland of Africa to now the Black Latina Movement ;).

Where do we find the balance.

I am not apologetic towards my outward love for my race, people and culture but because I was born in the US I didn't have a say on assimilation; that decision was made before my parents were even born.

I whole heartedly agree with Dr. Dubois teaching of double identity and embracing both. Learning to live with this duality that runs throughout my entire body. Would I love to do what my Jamaican forefather the incomparable Marcus Garvey suggested and create schools and communities for our people... hell yes! But it would also be denying our American birth rights so there's definitely a fine line many of us must follow. It is not at easy as it looks but our complexities make us that more intriguing as humans.

CSR

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Masters Food?

Diabetes and heart disease is killing our people!

The numbers within our community is daunting and I have heard many claim it is due to the food we eat. On one of my many food shopping sprees I went to the meat/fish market and as I waited on line the wheels in my head started turning. Beef ribs, pig feet, ox tail, pig ear and tongue, tripe, if you're reading this you have indulged in at least one of these items as some of the most delicious meals you have ever had! But looking at it from a health standpoint aside from these pieces being extremely fatty they are far from the best cuts of meat.

So in doing some research the theory is slaves and poor people couldn't afford the best of the best and were given left overs and scraps of an animal after the prime pieces went to those in charge.

I gotten say for a moment this put a smile on my face... damn my ancestors are something else. To make ribs or pig feet taste good and not look disguising is talent!

But with limited resources and cooking items salt and sauces became the key elements of many of these dishes. I watched an interview with Whoopie Goldberg where she said she refuse to eat foods with sauces on them because you lose the flavor of what you are eating. Also that sauces originate from the French who used sauces to disguise rancid meat being that at that time there was no refrigeration. So although we were able to make due with what we had and develop foods that are now classic family dishes we have also pass down unbeknown to many bad eating habits that now have heighten high cholesterol and high blood pressure, leading to diabetes and heart disease.

Both plaque my family but whether or not these diseases are hereditary or you are the first in your family to develop them you really are what you eat. Now I don't discourage us from one day to the next to stop eating things we know and love but lets eat and cook a little bit wiser. Less salt, fat, sauce etc and remember everything in moderation is fine ;).

CSR

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