By D.L. CHANDLER, Face2face Africa [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Los Angeles Pobladores, or “townspeople,” were a group of 44 settlers and four soldiers from Mexico who established the famed city on this day in 1781 in what is now California. The settlers came from various Spanish castes, with over half of the group being of African descent. Governor […]
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Her ancestors fled to Mexico to escape slavery 170 years ago. She still sings in English to this day. | The Washington Post
She is proof of how complicated migration between the United States and Mexico can be: An 86-year-old black woman, sitting in her home in northern Mexico, singing hymns in English. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Lucia Vazquez Valdez is the descendant of African Americans who fled the prospect of slavery in the United States for Mexico in the […]
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