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Afro-Latinos are making waves in art, music, literature and cuisine.

Celebrating Afro-Latinos who inspire us through art

By Erika L. Sánchez

Eva Ayllón “I always liked to sing, but I didn't know I was going to end up as a singer,” Ayllón says. She first thought she'd become a nurse, but … Read More

Junot Diaz

Cafecito: Junot Diaz on finding your voice

By Feliciano Garcia and Martin Garcia Flores, NBC News, @CafecitoTime

On this episode of Cafecito, we are joined by proud Dominican author and recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, Junot Diaz. The first Latino … Read More

Junot Diaz, 43, a fiction writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is seen in Cambridge, Mass. Diaz, a recipient of one of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," was named a finalist, Wednesday, Oct. 10, for a National Book Award for his book, This is How You Lose Her," a series of stories about love. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Tsar Fedorsky)

Junot Diaz, Domingo Martinez among finalists for 2012 National Book Awards

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The National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2012 National Book Awards Wednesday, with Latino writers snagging two of the spots in the … Read More