"La Negrada": The recognition of Afro-Mexican communities on the big screen

"La Negrada", by director Jorge Perez Solano, has been a big deal since its release in Mexico on August 10th. The film that recently premiered in Mexico City has made history as Mexico's first feature film with an all-Black cast. Solano enlisted locals and non-professional actors to star in the film, contributing to the slow but long overdue recognition of Afro-Latinos communities on the big screen. In Mexico, Afro-Mexicans represent one percent of the total population, but they are not recogni… READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2018/08/20/... Africanews on YouTube brings you a daily dose of news, produced and realised in Africa, by and for Africans. Africanews is the first pan-African multilingual media outlet, unique in its concept and vision. Subscribe on our Youtube channel    / africanews   and receive all the latest news from the continent. Africanews is available in English and French. Website : www.africanews.com Facebook :   / africanews.channel   Twitter :   / africanews