by: Veana Barajas
Notes from a Brown Girl’s Music Lesson
by: Noelia Cerna
I think about how you have to be twice as qualified and interesting as your white counterparts to get even a fraction of the opportunity in the working world. I think about how carefully I have to speak and conduct myself in white spaces because they find me intimidating if I’m too ethnic.
What to Free People is Juneteenth?
By: Ms. J
Juneteenth in many ways became the activist’s response to Fredrick Douglass’ question on July 5, 1852, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” This holiday claps back: “Nothing. We have a day all our own.”
Caribbean American Heritage Month & Audiobook Month
Audiobook Month Abantu Audio is a digital storytelling platform representing BIPOC through its Audiobooks and Blog. We are dedicated to hiring Narrators of Color and highlighting POC perspectives through our site. Check Out Our Free…
“I’ll never be Black Enough”
By: Ariyan Johnson
I thought I was Black. That was until American society told me otherwise. People, including friends and family would say things to me like “Are you sure you’re Black?” or “You act white”
Native American Youth Poetry
The Native American Youth Academy (NACA) is a tuition-free public charter school in Albuquerque, New Mexico that proudly serves students from over 60 tribes. With an emphasis on indigenous thought and fostering community values, NACA…
Who is Miguel Piñero?
Miguel Piñero, the outlaw turned poet, playwright, and actor. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Lower East Side, Piñero challenges every convention and delivers powerful…
Poetry from the Son of Immigrants
By: Andres R Gomez
This poem is dedicated to Andres Guardado, Alex Toledo, Daunte Wright, Elijah McClain, and all those who have perished from police brutality
Poetry from the Daughter of Immigrants
By: Veana Barajas
April is National History Month! This month we are highlighting two poems from Veana Barajas, a first-generation American, advocate, mother, wife, student, and spoken-word poet. Her two poems are found below, “Yo Estoy Cansada” and “Daughter of Immigrants”.
Indigenous Student Confronts Professor on Native Culture
http://blog.abantuaudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Marlie-with-logo.mov Note: Marlie identifies as two-spirit and goes by (they/he) pronouns. With indigenous roots from Mexico and Ecuador, something felt off when their Anthropology of “Native Peoples of the Americas” professor used ethnic slurs in…