No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.
“My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.”
“One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.”