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Afro-Venezuelans are designated by Spanish terms; no words of African derivation are used. "Afro-venezolano" is used primarily as an adjective (e.g., folklore afro-venezolano). "Negro" is the most general term of reference; "Moreno" refers to darker-skinned people, and "Mulatto" refers to lighter-skinned people, usually of mixed European ...
Possibly made in Colombia; shown in Venezuela by Venezuelans (August 13–27) 1908: 5 de Julio or 5 de Julio: Película Criolla: Manuel Ignacio Baralt, Servio Tulio Baralt and Manuel Delhom Documentary Made in honor of the president of Carabobo state, Dr. Samuel E. Niño Las Trincheras-Valencia: S. T. Baralt and M. Delhom Documentary 1909
Fifty Shades of Black; The Fighting Temptations; List of films about black girlhood; Fingers in the Wind; First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story; First Sunday; The Five Heartbeats; The Flying Ace; For Colored Girls; For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story; Four Brothers (film) Fresh (1994 film) Friday (1995 film) Friday After Next ...
Selenis Leyva (1972–) American actress of Cuban and Dominican descent (Orange Is the New Black, Diary of a Future President). [42] Iyari Limón (1976–) Mexican-born American actress; Eva Longoria (1975–) American actress of Mexican descent [43] Eric Lopez (1978–) American voice actor of Mexican descent (Young Justice)
Pedro Camejo (better known as Negro Primero, or The First Black) (1790–1821), lieutenant at the Venezuelan war of independence; Agostino Codazzi (1793–1859), Italian born, military officer, cartographer, former governor of Barinas; Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), Wars of Independence leader, veteran of the U.S. and French revolutions
As of 1981, according to the critic D'Ambrosio and other academics, about 51.6% of Venezuelans are mestizos or mulattos (called Criollos: the 40% of them are with mostly white features, 20% with mostly black features and 10% with mostly Indians features), 45% are white, 2% are black and 1% Indians. According to these scholars, is the fact that ...
Sidney Poitier (1927–2022), pictured in 1963, was the first Black movie star and the first Black male winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878–1949), pictured in 1946, was an American tap dancer, actor, singer, perhaps best known today for his Shirley Temple films.
A Black man named Esteban el Negro (Steven the Black), a North African Moor from Spain, searched for the fabled city of Cíbola with Cabeza de Vaca. Veracruz, Campeche, Pánuco and Acapulco were the main ports for the entrance of African slaves. In the past, offspring of Black African/Amerindian mixtures were called jarocho (wild pig), chino or ...