1.  A black (dark, medium or fair) Afro-Latino.

2.  A person of both, African/African American & Latin descent.

Featured in Latino Perspectives Magazine, referenced in the personal blog of one of the most influential Latinos in America and one of our favorite authors, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, and interviewed as a Latino Political Analyst for BBC Mundo.com.

BNN is respected as the leading African-American, Afro-Latino & Latino, news portal, devoted to the interests and complexities of our communities of color. 

Who are we:

Blacktino.net is an independent news organization.  Our staff is both culturally and racially diverse, we are of Puerto Rican, African-American, Mexican, and Native descent.  Our team also represents the half-rican (aka: half-African), inter-racial, bi-racial, multi-racial, and mixed races of the world.  Whether the mixture is Afro-Latino, Black-white, Latino-Pacific Islander, Latino-white, etc., this site is intended to represent the various admixtures of Blacks and Latino's, showing love for ourselves and promoting our pride to be considered "people of color!" 

Our Mission: 

BNN stands with victims and revolutionary activists, to prevent discrimination and uphold political freedoms.  We will make an earnest effort to bring to the forefront, the social, cultural and political issues that impact our communities, and to wage war upon the vices of racism, poverty, exploitations, false imprisonment, gay/lesbian oppressions, sexism, gang violence/hate crimes/police brutalities, immigration, miss education, gentrification, environmental destruction, HIV/diabetes, and other misrepresentations.

BNN is a progressive, revolutionary, cultural movement that provides a voice for change.  We draw upon a panoply of news sources, and select stories that we feel are most intriguing and relevant to our target audience. 
Our goal is to unearth and spotlight stories that are underplayed by mainstream media.  In particular, those stories that reveal social injustices, highlight cultural accomplishments, and showcase a positive society, of intellectuals who are conquering the world.

Afro-Latin communities exist in all Latin America countries as a result of the slave trade and immigration. Significant groupings are found in Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Black populations range in size from less than 1% to as high as 30% in Colombia and 46% in Brazil. They are majorities in some Spanish speaking Caribbean nations: Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

Social limits

Blacks remain victims of a history of what can be called "skin-color apartheid.”  Many Afro-Latin’s have challenged their oppression and seen some of their culture absorbed into mainstream Latin American life, but most still struggle with cultural myths and social problems.  According to the authors of "No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Americans Today," Colonial and postcolonial society, partitioned off people classifying and categorizing skin pigmentation with a bewildering array of legal codes and linguistic terms.

Crisis of choice

There are pervasive problems of racial exclusion, governmental violence and societal repression of black traditions of African origins. The remedy may require specific legislation, never forthcoming after slavery's abolition that identifies and manages contemporary race relations.


(See No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Americans Today (1995), reviewed in The Chronicle Black Books section, and Afro-Central America: Rediscovering the African Heritage (1996), both published by the Minority Rights Group, London; NACLA Report on the Americas, The Black Americas; Britannica Yearbook; and Leslie Rout, The Black Experience in Hispanic America: 1502 to the Present.)