I liked Martha Irvine's Associated Press (via Pueblo Chieftain) article "First black U.S. priest unknown to most Catholics"
Ihosvani Rodriguez's South Florida Sun-Sentinel article "Athlete touts an alternative: Record-holding black swimmer promotes the sport to minority children" has a data point: "Statistics from USA Swimming, the sport's national governing body, show less than 1 percent of the 300,000 competitive swimmers in the country are black. In the Olympics, the United States has had only four black participants in aquatic sports: Anthony Ervin in 2000 and Maritza Correia in 2004 in swimming, and in 2004, Genai Kerr and Omar Amr represented the country in water polo."
Rutgers Law School professor Tanya K. Hernandez's Los Angeles Times op-ed essay "Roots of Latino/black anger: Longtime prejudices, not economic rivalry, fuel tensions" has this, and more, to say: "The fact is that racism — and anti-black racism in particular — is a pervasive and historically entrenched reality of life in Latin America and the Caribbean. More than 90% of the approximately 10 million enslaved Africans brought to the Americas were taken to Latin America and the Caribbean (by the French, Spanish and British, primarily), whereas only 4.6% were brought to the United States. By 1793, colonial Mexico had a population of 370,000 Africans (and descendants of Africans) — the largest concentration in all of Spanish America."
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