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Momentum is a blog that captures and reflects the moment we find ourselves in, one where rampant anti-Black racism is leading to violence, trauma, protest, reflection, sorrow, and more. Momentum doesn’t look away when the news cycle shifts.
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Jada Gomez
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Oct 10, 2021
“My mom is a woman of color even though she might not be readily identified as such and I feel like because of that, she always gave me space to explore my identity; get in touch with who I am. She understood the void…
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Oct 7, 2021
“Cuban-American or Latin-American, that’s not a race; that’s an ethnicity. My race is Black.” — Laz Alonso
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Oct 5, 2021
“I’m more than what a lot of people think that I am — or will be.” — Cardi B
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Oct 3, 2021
“The idea of Blackness among Latinos isn’t really discussed as much as it should [be] and it’s tragic because so much of that African culture is so dominant.” — Mimi Valdes
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Sep 30, 2021
“I was told early on that I could not audition for Latina characters because I’m Black. And as much as I adore Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek, there are many amazing Latinas who don’t look like them. Afro-Latinxs also…
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Sep 28, 2021
“I’m Cuban but [people] didn’t get it because I was also brown-skinned, and you usually see a fair-skinned Latino. So it was just like, ‘Oh, what are you? Are you Black? Are you white?’ I didn’t feel like I had to make…
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Sep 26, 2021
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Clearly we’re not there yet, but to be able to bring forward the world as we see it, as I see it and as I saw it growing up and all the voices — women, Afro-Latinos, Latinos, Asians
. We all inhabit the world, we all…
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Jada Gomez
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Sep 21, 2021
“I believe if we only are talking to people who agree with us, we are failing in some way to understand our world and our country.” — Gwen Ifill
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Jada Gomez
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Sep 19, 2021
“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Sep 16, 2021
“For people who have been ostracized, who have been all the way at the bottom, there’s only one way that we can go — and that’s up.” — Mj Rodriguez
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