Series: AfroMexicans, Here We Are!

Alasdair conducted a two-part package series on the plight and future of AfroMexicans.

As the Black Lives Matter movement spreads internationally, we're looking today at one of the world's most forgotten Black communities. 

In Mexico, Black people make up around one percent of the population. 

Mexico is home to more than one million Afro-Mexicans, yet these are marginalized and often-forgotten communities. They represent around one percent of the national population. Mexico's 2020 census is the first ever to include 'Afro-Mexican' as an ethnic category.

CGTN's Alasdair Baverstock tells us in the first of two reports, equal rights isn't the only battle they have on their hands.