The decision to award reggaeton artist J Balvin as Afro-Latino Artist of the Year last month is a familiarly puzzling and frustrating story. The musical genre — created by Afro-Panamanians and ...

Bad Bunny likes to remind the world where he and his music come from. In “EoO,” a song from his 2025 album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS,” he raps, “‘Tás escuchando música de Puerto Rico” (“You’re listening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. people taking tour in Panama Panama is a country of remarkable diversity, and one of its most vibrant and rich cultural traditions ...

Meanwhile, the many Afro Panamanians already living in the country, whose descendants had been trafficked as slaves, spoke Spanish. These linguistic distinctions resulted in two primary groups of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Brendan Frizzell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (THE CONVERSATION ...