Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd/Lists of Articles

WP:AfroCROWD

This list is a work in progress and will be beefed up over the course of the workshop series. Please add articles to it at will. These are only suggestions. We encourage AfroCROWDers to edit Wikipedia in furtherance of whatever their interests and passions are.

General resources edit

Sankofa Archives - African and afrodescendant history, culture, images
Afrolatin@ Project - Includes various reports on Afrolatinos and Afrodescendants
Afridiaspora - Website on African writers and book festivals
Port Académie - Online platform for Haitian Studies and Research
Île en île - CUNY Project. Great resource -- in French -- on Caribbean authors who write in French
Haitian Creole Language Institute of NY
John Carter Brown Library - Haiti Collection - The John Carter Brown Library holds one of the world's great collections relating to Haiti.
Swain, Liz. "Garifuna Americans." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. Ed. Jeffrey Lehman. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2000. 686-697. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 20 June 2015. - Includes list of notable persons who could use entries.

Requested article lists edit

Lists edit

List of musical genres of the African diaspora

Categories edit

Other edit

Missing infoboxes

Afro-Caribbean edit

Afro-Caribbean music

African diaspora edit

African diaspora: Visual arts edit

African-American edit

African Civilization Society
Afican Civilization Society Building
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
Our Time Press
Black Lives Matter -- Sources: [1][2]
Nyame Brown, artist -- Sources: [3]
Rosalind Jeffries
Otto Neals
Charles Moore (Dance)
United States of Hoodoo
Tahir Hemphill, artist
Calvin Alexander Ramsey Sr., playwright and author
William Henry Ellis (banker) (1864-1923), New York banker and diplomat -- Sources: [4], [5], [6]
Orrin C. Evans, journalist and publisher of 1947 All-Negro Comics -- Sources: [7]
Alicia Garza -- Black Lives Matter founder -- Sources: [8][9]
Patrisse Cullors -- Black Lives Matter founder -- Sources: [10][11]
Opal Tometi -- Black Lives Matter Founder -- Sources: [12][13]
Sandy Ground Historical Museum
Florence M. Rice
Shirley Elizabeth Barnes
Weeksville, Brooklyn
Beny Primm, physician, educator, AIDS activist -- Sources: New York Times obit, History Makers, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
Margaret Burnham
Robert Curvin
St. Clair Bourne, documentary filmmaker
Black Journal (Television)
Francesca Thompson, Fordham University faculty and daughter of vaudeville actors Evelyn Preer and Edward Thompson
Edward Thompson (actor) -- Source: [14]
Judy Juanita, writer, poet, editor of Black Panther Party newspaper -- Sources: [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20]
Frederick Douglass Memorial, New York City
20th Anniversary of the Million Man March: Justice or Else, currently a redirect, but could possibly be fleshed out into a standalone article
Ngozi Anyanwu, playwright & actress
Ellis Haizlip, tv producer, host and creator of Soul! -- Sources: [21], [22], [23]
Robert Pritchard, pianist -- Sources: [24]
Carolyn Williams Bell, social justice activist, national tennis champion in U.S. Open [25]
Jessie Maple, cinematographer and film director -- Additional sources to add: [26] -- added 2020 interview and 2019 memoir, if anyone wants to check :)

Africa edit

Primary School Project priority list edit

Articles for improvement and review

African writers and notable personalities edit

Opal Tometi -- Black Lives Matter Founder -- Sources: [27]

Afrolatino/as edit

Bayano (Panama; English and Spanish Incomplete)
Maria Grajales Coello (Cuba, English and Spanish Incomplete)
Luis de Mozambique (Panama; English and Spanish Absent)
Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo (first female medical school graduate in the Dominican Republic)
Jose Leonardo Chirino (Venezuela; English Absent)
Gaspar Yanga (Mexico; Spanish Absent)
Rafael Cordero Santiago (Puerto Rico)
Felipillo (Panama English Incomplete, Spanish Absent)
Silvia De Grasse (Panama, English/Spanish Absent)
DuValle (Garifuna leader)
Dr Marta Moreno-Vega -- Sources: [28][29]
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
Awilda Sterling Duprey (Puerto Rican, contemporary dancer) Source: [30] [31]
Rosa Clemente
Graciela
Mario Bauza
Romeo Santos
Yvette Modestin (poet, writer, activist) - [32] [33]
La Lupe-- [34][35]
Zenaida Mendez --[36]
Mayra Santos Febres (Puerto Rican, writer)
Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro (Puerto Rican, writer, gay rights activist; needs updating)
Alicia Garza- Black Lives Matter founder -- Sources: [37][38]
Andrea Evangelina Rodriguez Perezo, MD -- [39] [40]
Monica Carillo - [41] [42][43]
Zulia Mena - [44][45]
Buika - [46][47]
Continue adding from the list of 30 notable Afrolatinas here: [48]
Rita Indiana (Dominican, writer, vocalist. Lead singer of Rita Indiana y los Misterios) [49] [50] [51] [52]
Victoria Espinosa (Puerto Rican actress and theater director)
Samuel Lind (Puerto Rican visual artist and cultural activist) [53] [54]
Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez (Puerto Rican salsa singer)
Cita Rodriguez (Puerto Rican salsa singer; daughter of Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez) [55] [56] [57]
Bocafloja (Mexican Hip Hop Mc, poet and activist; publications need to be updated)
Doña Adolfina Villanueva [58] [59] [60] [61] [62]
Villa sin Miedo (Black community in Loiza, Puerto Rico that was displaced in 1980's because they didn't have legal rights to the land) [63][64] [65]
Mambo Legends Orchestra
Juano Hernandez (Afro Puerto Rican actor. Hollywood's First Afrolatino movie star.) [66]
Gaspar Nyanga
Sylvia del Villard [Needs editing. Actress, dancer, choreographer and Afro-Puerto Rican activist.]
Nicolás Guillén
José Campeche (Needs editing. Puerto Rican visual artist and considered by art critics as one of the best rococo artists in the Americas.)
Rafael Ithier (Puerto Rican salsa musician and the founder of the highly successful orchestra El Gran Combo.
Rafael Hernandez Marin (Needs editing. Afro Puerto Rican Composer)
Juan Morel Campos (Needs editing. Afro Puerto Rican Composer)
Isabelo Zenon-Cruz (Afro Puerto Rican author. Published Narciso Descubre su Tracero, Humacao, Puerto Rico:Editorial Furidi, 1974; about racism in Puerto Rico.) [67] [68]
Narciso Descubre su Tracero (Humacao, Puerto Rico:Editorial Furidi, 1974; about racism in Puerto Rico.)
Cecilia Orta Allende [69]
Rafael Cordero (educator)
Ernesto Ramos Antonini
Pedro Flores
Juan Boria (Puerto Rican poet known for his Afro-Caribbean poetry.)
Celestina Cordero ( Eucator who in 1820 founded the first school for girls in San Juan, Puerto Rico.)
Lucy Fabery (Afro-Puerto Rican Jazz Singer)
Dionisia Amaya (Honduras; retired teacher from the New York City Board of Education and co-founder of the Garifuna Coalition USA) (Source: "Garifuna pioneer will be at St Vincent reunion." Caribbean Net News, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. (July 3, 2009 Friday ):LexisNexis Academic. Web. Date Accessed: 2015/06/20.)

Bahamas edit

Johnny Kemp

Colombia edit

Delia Zapata Olivella (1926–2001), Afro-Colombian dancer and choreographer

Garifuna edit

Guyana edit

Guadeloupe edit

Martinique edit

Dominica edit

Dorian Beaupierre - professional boxer [70]
Edward Scobie

Haiti and its diaspora edit

List compiled by Dr. Célucien Joseph, Oaurelien and Aliceba

Haiti: Diasporas edit

Haitians in the Bahamas - Sources: [71][72] (Already satisfied? See: Haitian Bahamian ?)
Haitians in the United States or Haitian Immigrants in the United States -- Sources: [73] (Please see: Haitian Americans ?)
Haitians in Canada (Already satisfied? See: Haitian Canadian)
Haitians in France
Haitians in Brazil (Already satisfied? See: Haitian Brazilian)

Haiti: Literature and cultural studies edit

Haiti: Technology and linguistics edit

Michel S. Laguerre --Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information TechnologySources: [78] [79]
Michel DeGraff --MIT Professor of Linguistics -- Expand with these sources: [80]
#ShamelesslyHaitian -- Hashtag created by Dr. Bertin Louis -- Sources: [81] (Notable for Wikipedia?)

Haiti: Politicians & statesmen edit

Haiti: First ladies of Haiti edit

Haiti: Prime Minister of Haiti edit

Haiti: Vodou and Haitian arts, painting, (folkloric) dance, (roots) music and Haitian performers edit

Lud Germain
Jean Caroiffa
Frisner Augustin - Model Entry, use as template
Boukman Eksperyans
Lumane Casimir - [158] French: [159]
Boukan Ginen
Wawa (musician) (Jacques Maurice Fortéré)
Racine Kanga de Wawa
Rasin Kanga
RAM (band)
Ayibobo
Simbi
Hector Hyppolite
Ulrick Jean-Pierre - [160]
Pierrot Barra- [161]
Georges Liautaud - Translate from the French Wikipedia entry: [162]
André Pierre - [163]
Jean-Léon Destiné
TiCorn
Carole Demesmin - [164] [165]
Emeline Michel
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Martha Jean-Claude - [166]
Pétion Savain aka Petion Savain - Please expand [167] Need other sources
Farah Juste - Kreyòl: [168] -- English: [169] -Not enough, need more
Carmen Brouard - Translate from French: [170]
Odette Mennesson-Rigaud
Val Jeanty
Marie Clotilde Bissainthe aka Toto Bisainthe
Chantal Lavigne
David Bontemps
Werner A. Jaegerhuber
Joseph Augustin (“Papi Djo”)
Franck Fouché
Rene Victor
Lenelle Moïse
Erol Josué
Jean-Claude Garoute aka Tiga
Saint-Soleil
Leyla McCallaSources:[171] [172][173]
Lina Mathon-Blanchet
Haiti Cultural Exchange
Yole Dérose
Racine Mapou
Theodore Beaubrun [174][175][176]
Mimerose Beaubrun aka Manzè BeaubrunSources -- English: [177] [178][179][180][181] French [182][183]; Also see existing Boukman Eksperyans entry
Lòlò Beaubrun [184] (Also see List for Mimerose Beaubrun above)
Paul Beaubrun [185] [186][187] [188][189] [190] [191]
Zing Experience [192][193][194]
T'Dòz aka Teddy Beaubrun English [195] French: [196]
Daniel Beaubrun [197] [198]
Gelan Lambert aka Gelan Lambert Jr. -- Diaspora dancer who was in the the play Fela- Sources: [199] [200]Bio [201]
Joanne Borgella -- Source: [202] P. 920
Racine Mapou de Azor
André Juste
Issa El Saieh
Guy Durosier

Haiti: Haitian drummers edit

Frisner Augustin
Ti-Roro
Alphonse Cymber
Coyote (drummer) [203]
Samba Zao or Sanba Zao
Louis Celestin - already satisfied? See: Kaytranada
Azor (drummer) (Lénord Fortuné) See: [204]

Haiti: Haitian associations and organizations edit

HHTARG aka Haitian Hometown Associations Resource Group -- Sources: [205] p. 908
Haitian Centers Council -- Sources: [206] p. 909
Yéle Haiti -- Sources: [207] p. 918 (Already satisfied, see: Yéle Haiti)
National Coalition for Haitian Rights -- Sources: [208]

Haiti: Haitian holidays edit

Flag Day (Haiti) -- (Currently serves as a redirect for Public holidays in Haiti) Source: [209] P. 912-913
Independence Day (Haiti) -- Source: Source: [210] P. 912

Haiti: Haiti sports edit

Georges Chardin Délices (Soccer player)

Haiti: Haiti human rights activists edit

Jocelyn McCalla - Source: [211]
Marleine Bastien - Source: [212]P. 927

Haiti: Haitians in medicine edit

Henri Ford - Source: [213] P. 928
Dr. Bendson Louima
Dr. Jean-Baptiste Romain (physical anthropologist)

Haiti: List of World Heritage Sites in Haiti edit

Haiti: Town, City, Commune, Department edit

Carrefour, Ouest

Haiti: Haitian Wikipedia article requests edit

Many requests are related to the Haitian diaspora, including those of New York City, South Florida, and Boston, as a way to encourage their participation

Jamaica edit

Alton Ellis
Bob Marley
Bunny Brown
Beverly Kelso
Matthew Jordan Smith (Historian) -- [217]

External links edit

AfroCROWD (main page)
Wikipedia - Haitian Creole
AfroCROWD Meetup - NYC (main events page)
HaitiCROWD Meetup - NYC
AfroCROWD (official website)
Wikipedia Meetup - NYC (main events page)
Wikimedia New York City

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