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Colombia Elects First Afro-Colombian Woman VP Francia Marquez. Meet Her Journey From Maid To...
Travel Noire via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFrancia Márquez is the name of the Black Colombian woman who drastically changed the history and...
Young Black Designer Dresses The First Afro-Colombian Woman Vice President
The Root via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA highly important political figure has got a new fashion attitude thanks to a young, Black designer...
Colombia's trailblazing vice president: Black, female and champion of the 'nobodies'
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoVice President Francia Elena Márquez poses for a picture in August with 35 Colombian students in...
Afro-Colombian politician tapped as ambassador to Washington
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA veteran Afro-Colombian politician who studied in the Soviet Union and fled his homeland after...
Meet The Black President That Colombia Erased From Its History
Travel Noire via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn June 17th, 2002, history was made in Colombia after the country elected its first Afro-Colombian...
Colombian voters elect country's first Black vice president
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs Colombia's voters put aside a longtime antipathy to leftists and chose one as their new...
Hometown looks to aspiring Colombia VP Marquez to deliver on inequality promises
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFormer neighbors and colleagues in Colombia's largely marginalized Cauca province hope vice...
Colombia’s First Black Vice President Brings Green Focus
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 2 years ago(Bloomberg) -- Environmental activist Francia Marquez will become Colombia’s first Black vice...
Gustavo Petro Could Transform Colombia—And Washington’s Role in Latin America
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoColombia's new President Gustavo Petro delivers a speech after his inauguration ceremony at Bolivar...
Colombia VP says she was targeted with roadside bomb
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoColombia’s Vice President said on Tuesday that her security team found more than seven kilos of explosives buried next to a rural road that leads to her...