From Monday to Friday, March 25, the second edition of the postgraduate course Afro Women in Latin America will be held at the headquarters of the Center for Psychological and Sociological Research (CIPS), in celebration of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, to be held on March 21.

Radio Coco reports that the event has among its objectives to influence social transformations in the Cuban capital and the country, to promote the fight against racism and discrimination and to integrate a greater number of people to social changes.

With this purpose, adds this media, the chairs of Social Sciences of different universities in Cuba and representatives of research centers, seek to integrate a greater number of people to social changes and carry out actions that eventually become public policies in pursuit of combating these evils.

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Despite the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, this academic and political action course is being held in person and virtually, with interventions by PhDs in Social Sciences, Rosa Campoalegre from Cuba, Claudia Miranda from Brazil and Anny Ocoro Loango, representative of Colombia and Argentina.

Radio Coco points out that black feminisms and intersectionality, both in the Antillean nation and in other Latin American countries, are the main topics proposed by this course, which runs until March 25, with the launching of the book Afrofeminist Voices, a work resulting from the exchange among professors, students and tutors of the CIPS.