BLACK MEXICO. On the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr, this pre-taped program features conversations with promoters of Mexico’s third cultural root, the African ancestry. The program looks into the quest to achieve recognition for communities of African descent in Mexico, the Black president of Mexico, and relations between Afro-Mexicans and African Americans.

Guests: Maestro Francisco Ziga, Rural sociologist, member of non-profit organization Púrpura in Santiago Jamiltepec, Oaxaca, co-author of the book “De Afro-Mexicanos a Pueblo Negro”; Dr. Eduardo Díaz, Director, Smithsonian Latino Center, Washington, DC, former director of National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM, host of exhibit “The African Presence in Mexico”.