‘Endurance to thrive’: Yelaine Rodriguez uses costume to defy stereotypes of Afro Latinx and Caribbean religions
Sarah Molano, CNN Yelaine Rodriguez is used to people making assumptions about her identity and what she does. A first-generation Afro Dominican American born and raised in the Bronx, the now-30-year-old artist remembers the backhanded compliments she would receive as a teen and young adult — comments like, “Oh, you don’t seem like you’re from
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