The Activist Vision and Practice of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Pro-independence - Mason - Global African Culturalist - Harlem Renaissance Member

MEET THE PANELISTS

Maricruz Rivera Clemente, Ph.D.

Executive Director COPI (Corporación Piñones se Integra); cofounder, Corredor Afro. Recognized with the award "Maniobra" by the Mellon Foundation.

Nancy Raquel Mirabal

Historian who has published widely in the fields of Afro-diasporic, gentrification, and spatial studies. Associate Professor of American Studies and U.S. Latina/o Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Recipient of the Scholar in Residence Fellowship, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library (2012-2013).

Alex Lasalle

Past Master of St. Cecile Lodge #568 , Grand Lodge of the State of New York - is a spiritual healer, musician, songwriter, and proud father of his children and countless religious godchildren throughout the world. Afro-Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban singer, he is a master in the folkloric roots drum tradition known as Bomba.

Ebenecer López Ruyol

Lawyer, writer, trade unionist, community leader, politician, cultural manager and president of the Anti-Racism Committee of the Puerto Rico Bar Association. One of the few historians who intertwines the historiography of the labor movement with the struggle for racial equity, a sense of identity, and the strengthening of Afro-Puerto Rican identity.

James R. Morgan III

Officer of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, and its Worshipful Grand Historian & Archivist since 2019. He is currently enrolled in the Morgan State University School of Graduate Studies in pursuit of a Master’s Degree and works as a Consultant with both the International African American Museum and the African American Civil War Museum.

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Jossianna Arroyo - MODERATOR

Literary and cultural studies scholar who specializes in the analysis of Afro-Diasporic literatures and cultures in the Americas. Author of several novels and books like "Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry" (Palgrave, 2013), an analysis of transnational, racial and colonial dimensions of Masonic encounters in the circum-Caribbean and the United States (1850-1898).

Marta Moreno Vega - MODERATOR

Scholar, producer, activist, educator, author, professor, and Yoruba priestess. Second Director of El Museo del Barrio, Founder of Caribbean Cultural Center and African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), Founder Creative Justice Initiative (CJI), and Co-founder Corredor Afro.