Racial discrimination in Colombia wasn’t a criminal offense until 2011 after a centuries-long history of white supremacy that persists until this day. The concept of white supremacy was introduced by…
Colombia’s ICT minister fired an official after an “on/off”‘ switch proved too technologically advanced for him, leaving his racist tirade against native Colombians on record. Colombia’s indigenous have historically suffered…
Colombia’s government has come under fire from all sides over the mass killing of indigenous leaders. The United Nations, Congress, regional authorities and indigenous authorities have criticized the administration of…
Colombia is inhabited by 102 Indigenous peoples. We are the victorious survivors of a genocide that has not yet ended; we are still in a “conquest” that does not end.…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday returned a portrait of the country’s only black president in history to the gallery of former presidents from which he had been removed.…
The human rights commission of the Organization of American States (OAS), has urged Colombia to investigate allegations of excessive police violence during protests in the country’s largest port city. According…
It’s been 165 years since the abolishment of slavery in Colombia, yet Afro-Colombians are still fighting for equality and justice, partly due to ignorance of history. If you’ve been following…
Seven afro-colombians have been killed in Bogota in the last month, leading community leaders to denounce what they see as an alarming increase in racially motivated murders, newspaper El Espectador…
A Colombian judge has assessed that two non-black members of Congress elected to represent Afro-Colombians “misled” the National Electoral Council, according to weekly Semana.