The hairdo, the makeup, the new clothes.

This campaign was launched on the International Day of Afro Descendant and Afro Caribbean Women.

Pamela Anderson is the latest celebrity to shock fans with a dramatic new hairdo.

June and July were important months in the fight for the rights of of Afro Latin American and Afro Caribbean women.

In turn, the Red de Mujeres Afro Latinoamericanas Afro Caribeña y de la Diáspora (Network of Afro Latin American and Afro Caribbean Women of the Diaspora) which was born on July 25, 1992, continues fighting for better conditions for millions of black women in Latin America and the Caribbean.

At least what kind of hair did she have? What was her hairdo like? I didn't pay attention.

Annie is now part of a mixed Afro band, Pepe Soup.

Afro Brazilian activists are anxious they don t get paved over again.

He is loud, crude, ignorant about most things, and looks absurd in his puffed up blond comb over hairdo.

Afro Brazilians weren't the only ones practicing the closing of the body.

Hear for yourself the Afro Caribbean rhythms that run through this album

In one of the articles dedicated to Afro feminism, Antoinette Torres Soler explained

Canalón de Timbiquí is a traditional Afro Colombian ensemble from Colombia's Pacific coast.

And so the second element is the plants that Afro Brazilians brought from Africa.

The blog Feminismo Afrodiaspórico (Afro diasporic Feminism) highlights the importance of this time of reflection

And the neighborhood has that presence too a sort of centrality within Afro Brazilian tradition.

Today's Afro Colombian community in Cacarica, in eastern Colombia, knows these challenges all too well.

Taking black girl as an insult is something that so many Afro descendant women deal with daily.

Nevertheless, there has been no real decisive change regarding the plight of Afro Latin American and Caribbean women.

So far, Britain has seen only four Muslim riots, compared to about eight race related riots by Afro Caribbeans.

The commemoration coincided with the first Afro descendant Women Leaders of the Americas Summit, held in the capital of Nicaragua.

And they usually use that around Afro Brazilian plant species that have a lot of spirit, a lot of energy.

People of Afro Caribbean origin were suited by temperament and physique to entertainment and athletics, and so they sang and sprinted.

The significant number of Afro Venezuelans who live there represent both the past left behind and the richness of their present.

Our characters are black, Afro Latinx, Asian, mixed and everything in between like literally running the gamut of melanin, you know?

Watching a few videos on YouTube would be a good start in getting to know the vast world of Afro Venezuelan music.

Zewde first came to Rio in 2011 on a grant to research Afro Brazilian responses to the archaeological re discovery of Valongo.

The online discussion of Afro Latin American rights (which goes far beyond the July celebrations) can be followed on Twitter Afrocaribeñas and Afrolatinas.

In Afro Brazilian belief, which comes largely from West Africa, when you mark something with white fabric it represents where the ancestors gather.

Ever since he caught the public's attention with his debut album in early 2001, Teddy Afro has been a household name in Ethiopia.

Ethiopian singer Teddy Afro, who delivered opening remarks at a U.S. Embassy sponsored workshop for students on the occasion of World Environment Day 2015.

Sibo Kanobana wrote in the blog Afro Europe I visited Israel en Palestine during the Christmas holidays and saw many things I didn t expect to see.

In the meantime, today's self organized Afro Colombian community is left with a lot of unanswered questions, an unsatisfied demand of justice, and many unpleasant neighbors.

More than 10 of Colombian citizens are Afro descendant, and they make up more than 90 of the population in regions like the Pacific Chocó region.

Indeed, in a country that has been proud of its supposedly non racist nature, there has been no Afro Brazilian politician of significant stature for a century.

In 2003, Law 10.639, which made the teaching of Afro Brazilian History and Culture a required subject in schools, seemed to announce a change in the system.

The name Valongo has always had significance and been central to Afro Brazilian oral history, says Zewde, and so it s always been present in songs and in ritual.

This heterogeneity has led to some controversies, including dress codes in some offices that forbid Afro style hairdos and other restrictions, when it comes to posing for identification card photos.

The video features a so called drum dance, which originated on the northern coast of Venezuela, and is possibly the most popular Afro Venezuelan cultural art form among young people.

Afro Mexicans proudly share the story of El Yanga, apparently an enslaved prince from the Yang Bara tribe from Gabon, who helped slaves to be free from the Spanish around 1570.

Moreover, two of the country's gold medalists and both silver medalists were Afro Colombians, who make up over a 10 of the national population but face widespread discrimination and systematic marginalisation.

Only in November 2013 did the Inter American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) condemn the Colombian government for the forced displacement of Afro Colombian communities as a result of Operation Génesis.

In June 2013, five months before the IACHR ruled that the Colombian state is responsible for the displacement of the Afro Colombian communities, the base Guamal was constructed on Cerro Mocho.

At a concert called A Drink for Peace, hundreds of young people danced to the music of Canalón de Timbiquí, a traditional Afro Colombian ensemble from along the country's Pacific coast.

Launched in Brazil's center of Afro Brazilian culture, the city of Salvador, the idea grew into a community of black Brazilian women helping each other through one hour donations of their time.