The Creators Preserving & Sharing Black Latine History

So like many aggrieved journalists, artists, and historians, she took to social media to cover and report on the stories she cared about, unfiltered. In September 2022, she began posting one video a week about Black Latin American history, like the history of Juan José Nieto Gil, a former Colombian president whose Blackness was removed from history; or how non-white people in Latin America could buy “whiteness” in the 18th and 19th centuries through a Gracias al Sacar certificate; or how enslaved Black women in Colombia would communicate and plan escapes through braids. “I went from zero followers to 30,000 at the end of four weeks,” says the video producer, travel influencer, and creator of Black Latin History, an award-winning travel series exploring the African diaspora’s cultural, historical, and social impact throughout Latin America.