The survival of the Negros Mascogos, the only community in Mexico descended from US slaves
It could be any rural Mexican town. But it is unique. Two long streets and about eight cross streets. The houses are single-story and painted in pastel shades. The heat is heavy and the sun merciless in this area of northern Coahuila. The calm is almost absolute. Only the walls painted with murals hint at the particularity hidden in El Nacimiento, an arid stretch of land at the foot of the imposing Sierra de Santa Rosa de Lima and located 124 miles (less than 200 km) from the Texas border, precisely where the key chapter of the story told by the weathered walls was written. Two Black women dressed in red adorn one façade. And on another, a route is traced across maps: Africa, Florida, Mexico.
