Celebrating Our witness African Legacy

     Yesterday, I was able to attend an in-person activity after so long.  PROUD, at UPRH had coordinated a special conference with Dr. Ana Judith Roman, the first female neurosurgeon in Puerto Rico.  Her conference was epic and so important for us to have been witness to.  I will share this great experience in another post.

    Today I want to write the beautiful artwork exhibited at UPRH lobby.  Art students represented our Afro-Puerto Rican heritage with extraordinary works.  The lobby lit up with hope in so many dimensions.  After so long due to the pandemic, university life is starting to flourish.  And our African heritage is embraced by more people than in past years.

    These artwork whispered to the spectator the legacy many Afro-Puerto Rican women have left for us to remember and continue to walk in the path they paved for us.  We were able to admire the artistic representation of Celestina Cordero, an educator whose life was overshadowed for many years by her brother's work, Rafael Cordero.  The ironic twist is that research is demonstrating that Celestina was the inspiration for Rafael's  vocation as an educator.

   I want to congratulate these emerging artists.  Their
work show not only their creative talent, but their compromise that the legacies of these women do not fade into oblivion.