Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on the making of the documentary, and the history and future of race and identity in Latin America.

Professor Júnia Ferreira Furtado on the diverse and integrated community of Diamantia in 18th-century Brazil.

Professor María Elisa Velázquez Gutiérrez discusses the African and Afro-descendant women in colonial Mexico.

Peruvian historian Maribel Arrelucea Barrantes talks about painter Pancho Fierro and what his work means to her.

Professor Tomás Fernández Robaina on the struggle for recognition of Africans and their descendents in Latin America.