By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated September 21, 2023
It’s Latinx Heritage Month, and in the wake of the right wing’s attempts to erase Black history, ESSENCE wants to make sure that you know about one Afro-Latino who spent most of his life dedicated to preserving our history.
In 1874, future activist, curator, historian, and writer Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was born in Puerto Rico, the son of a Puerto Rican
