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Fiestas Patrias to honor Afro-Latinos at annual cultural event

Saturday's event will feature a panel discussion of Charlotte Afrolatinos who will discuss their immigrant experiences.
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Saturday's event will feature a panel discussion of Charlotte Afro-Latinos who will discuss their immigrant experiences.

Fiestas Patrias will hold its eighth annual Afro-Latinos Black History Month event on Saturday afternoon at Johnson C. Smith University.

The event honors Latinos of African descent in Latin America and the U.S. Around 12% of Latinos in the U.S. identify as Afro-Latino.

Saturday’s event will feature a panel of Charlotte Latinos of African descent discussing their experiences as Afro-Latino immigrants in the community.

There will also be cultural performances of dance, music and poetry.

Fiestas Patrias is a nonprofit organization that preserves Latino culture in Charlotte. It has organized this event for eight years and also organizes yearly events for each Latin American country's independence day.

Saturday’s event is free and begins at 3 p.m. at the New Science Center auditorium at Johnson C. Smith University.

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A fluent Spanish speaker, Julian Berger will focus on Latino communities in and around Charlotte, which make up the largest group of immigrants. He will also report on the thriving immigrant communities from other parts of the world — Indian Americans are the second-largest group of foreign-born Charlotteans, for example — that continue to grow in our region.