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Finding La Negrita in Costa Rica: A Story of Coming Home

The Tico Times - July 31, 2022

Arts & Culture

An Afro-spiritual journey by Afro-Costa Rican writer Delia Adassa McDonald Woolery

Musings from an Afro-Costa Rican

Wanderlust: embracing the world as an Afro-Tica

Musings from an Afro-Costa Rican

Count me in, part III: Carmen Miller and Costa Rican ‘Sisterlocks’

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Dr. Charles Gourzong: Costa Rica’s visionary medicine man

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This month in "Musings from an Afro-Costa Rican," Natasha Gordon-Chipembere takes a look at a Limón-born medical legend.

Artists

A Costa Rican, a first kiss: Mourning George Michael

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Columnist Natasha Gordon Chipembere brings us a prom memory that was part Brooklyn, part Costa Rica, totally ’80s, and elevated by George Michael.

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A rare find: African voices in the Costa Rican National Archives

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Tales from Costa Rica's history of slavery, from the country's cacao plantations to a remarkable shipwreck near Cahuita.

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“Me and my people building” – Fire and the future of the Black Star Line building

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Sadness at the loss of a huge piece of Limón's history, mixed with hope that the Liberty Hall fire might be the start of a new era.

Musings from an Afro-Costa Rican

Learning English in Costa Rica, then and now

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These days, students have tons of options for learning English in Costa Rica – but in Limón of the 1940s and 50s, it was all about schoolhouses like Sister Jesse's.

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The power of a mother’s voice: the sinking of the San Pablo in Limón, 1942

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The author of "Musings from an Afro-Costa Rican" explores a family memory of the night World War II touched Costa Rican shores, and calls on Tico Times readers to help her honor those lost.

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