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06/02/2026

Something I noticed.

I’m here at and it’s providing answers to questions I had for the mestizo community in the southwest. I always wondered if the indigenous community had beef with Mexicans here since they are descendants of Spanish colonizers. We often talk about “the border crossed them” but they were invading indigenous land.

The executive director of this institution really helped me understand the community and gave me such an idealistic future of what it could be. It sounded too good to be true but I also know that we could make the choices to make that future real. Nothing is unrealistic.

Knowing the indigenous communities used Spanish to defend themselves from a common enemy is really making me think. No conclusions here. Just thoughts. The wheels are turning.

From salsa to reggaetón, Black Latinos built the sounds but the industry erases them. 🎶✊🏾Join me for a 90-minute deep di...
05/28/2026

From salsa to reggaetón, Black Latinos built the sounds but the industry erases them. 🎶✊🏾

Join me for a 90-minute deep dive: “From Bomba to Bad Bunny: The Whitewashing of Black Latino Music.” We’re celebrating Black Music Month by putting the pioneers back in the spotlight.

📅 June 25th, 2026
🕖 7:30 PM EST
📍 Online via Zoom
💵 Sliding scale $25-$50
VIP tix include 11 page study guide + replay
🎤 Hosted by me, Nydia Simone / Blactina Media

We’re breaking down:
🔥 The African DNA in “Latin” music: bomba, salsa, Afro-Latin jazz, reggaetón
🎤 Who really gets credit (and who gets erased)—from El General & Tego Calderón to Celia Cruz being called “too Black” for salsa
💡 Industry secrets: how marketing, playlists, and media push Afro-Latino artists to the margins
✊🏾How to fight back and support Black Latino musicians directly and credit the culture

You should pull up if:
🎵 You love reggaetón, salsa, or jazz but want the real history
✊🏾 You’re about racial justice in music
🇵🇦🇨🇺🇵🇷 🇩🇴🇭🇹🇨🇴🇻🇪🇪🇨🇲🇽🇧🇴🇨🇱🇭🇳🇨🇷🇸🇷🇬🇾🇬🇫🇵🇪🇧🇷🇧🇿🇳🇮🇸🇻🇵🇾🇺🇾🇦🇷
You’re Afro-Latino reclaiming your legacy

✨ Special features: interactive debate, exclusive foundational Black Latino playlist, and zero sugar-coating.

Meet your host: I’m Nydia Simone—Panamanian-Geechee founder of Blactina Media (as seen in NY Times, Forbes, Oprah’s Magazine), and a decade-long storyteller/writer/filmmaker who’s lived across Mexico, DR, and Panama.

Poll:
Did you know reggaetón was pioneered by Black Latinos?

Drop a 🥁 in the comments

05/28/2026

Part 2. I can go on so many tangents talking about this herstory and history of men scamming women out of their money!

The beef I have with Fania is so deep I’m tempt led to do a class on how much bad they did to Black artists and especially the Black women they represented *cough* FRAUDED. But back to Celia. She was a young Cuban artist and was taken advantage of due to her race and nationality but she really turned coal into diamonds. She became a major success despite everything. They tried to play in Graciela’s face and tried to pit Celia against her and did the same with La Lupe. I will do a video on La Lupe, Graciela and other Afrolatina music pioneers in June.

Read my article I wrote for titled Rhythms of Resilience about Afrolatinas contributions to American music. It’s very juicy. Link in bio

Also come to my class June 25th where I’ll be presenting on the whitewashing of Black Latino music.



Cash app: $BLACTINAMEDIA

05/28/2026

Part 2. I can go on so many tangents talking about this herstory and history of men scamming women out of their money!

The beef I have with Fania is so deep I’m tempt led to do a class on how much bad they did to Black artists and especially the Black women they represented *cough* FRAUDED. But back to Celia. She was a young Cuban artist and was taken advantage of due to her race and nationality but she really turned coal into diamonds. She became a major success despite everything. They tried to play in Graciela’s face and tried to pit Celia against her and did the same with La Lupe. I will do a video on La Lupe, Graciela and other Afrolatina music pioneers in June.

Read my article I wrote for titled Rhythms of Resilience about Afrolatinas contributions to American music. It’s very juicy. Link in bio

Also come to my class June 25th where I’ll be presenting on the whitewashing of Black Latino music.

05/25/2026

Code switching is something I learned as a kid. I think the act is very complex but only occupied ppls feel the need the code switch because the occupiers force you to speak their language by any means necessary.

But now we put pressure on ourselves to speak colonizer languages and they call us “articulate” when we do.

05/25/2026

Do you code switch?

05/20/2026

Haiti didn’t just inspire Latin America’s freedom, it funded it. 🇭🇹

When a defeated and restitution Bolívar showed up with nothing, Haiti gave him ships, rifles, soldiers, MONEY and a condition: end slavery everywhere. He took it. Then he locked Haiti out of the very congress meant to unite a free Americas. The history got erased and is still hidden.

🎥 Grab the “Haiti: The Real Liberator” class replay + study guide now. Learn the pact they don’t teach.
🔗 Link in bio.



What is more shocking?

05/17/2026

Shout out to the men who have continued to invest in their social circles tho. Every-time I hang out with a group of men it’s always an adventure. I forget I’m a girls girl. Hehe.

05/10/2026

Low and beyond my documents were discarded! Public storage called me and when my sister picked up the Evernote they apologized. Something fishy is def going on but to be honest, this is exhausting.

I’m gathering pictures of my stuff and what I readily want is my trophies and the doll my great grandmother made me.

Grateful to St. Expedite for getting me this far. 🙏🏾

AVOID SELF STORAGE!

The pain of this is something you don’t want to feel!

05/09/2026

When Sylvia crated the Sugar Hill Gang and Sugar Hill Records it was ode to her Harlem neighborhood Sugar Hill. She was known as the Mother of Hip Hop so why is Hip Hop suddenly being called a Jamacian invention?

Shout out to Fab 5 Freddy for going on and sharing the history of the disk jockey.

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