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The word negrophilia [1] is derived from the French négrophilie that means "love of the Negro". [2] It was a term that avant-garde artists used among themselves to describe their fetishization of Black cultures. Its origins were concurrent with art movements such as surrealism and Dadaism in the late 19th century.
Arturo "El Negro" Durazo Moreno (1924 – 5 August 2000) was the Chief of Police in Mexico City for six years, from 1976 to 1982. He was arrested in 1984 and incarcerated on multiple counts of corruption, extortion, tax evasion , smuggling and possession of illegal weapons and cocaine trade kickbacks.
Negro denotes 'black' in Spanish and Portuguese, derived from the Latin word niger, meaning 'black', which itself is probably from a Proto-Indo-European root *nekw-, "to be dark", akin to *nokw-, 'night'. [4] [5] Negro was also used for the peoples of West Africa in old maps labelled Negroland, an area stretching along the Niger River.
Basilica of the Cristo Negro of Esquipulas in Guatemala Black Christ of Esquipulas at Saint Joseph Cathedral of Antigua Guatemala. The Cristos Negros or Black Christs of Central America and Mexico trace their origins to the veneration of an image of Christ on a cross located in the Guatemalan town of Esquipulas, near the Honduran and Salvadoran border.
A Universal Negro Improvement Association parade in Harlem in 1920. A sign on a car says "The New Negro Has No Fear" By 1920 the association had over 1,900 divisions in more than 40 countries. Most of the divisions were located in the United States, which had become the UNIA's base of operations.
The Movimento Negro Unificado Contra a Discriminação Racial (MNU) was founded in 1978. It emerged as part of a public protest on July 7, 1978 against the torture of Robson Silveira da Luz at the Guaianases police headquarters in São Paulo; the discrimination of four Afro-Brazilian athletes at the Tietê Regatta Club, and the police killing ...
MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) -Joe Biden became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest on Sunday, flagging the dangers of global warming often dismissed by President-elect ...
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