CCCADI’s New Media programs subdivision creates digital content, experiences, and opportunities that support the eradication of the systematic exclusion and attack of African descendants in media and technology.

Through the creation of new opportunities for our people’s digital innovation and growth, CCCADI strives for an increase in access to information, knowledge, and representation that will significantly improve the ability of our communities to tell our own stories.

  • DIGITAL PRESERVATION

    Media focus that preserves CCCADI work digitally and presents to wider audiences outside of NYC/TriState. Creating a digital space for visitors to revisit past events and history of CCCADI thru our video series and platform called ARCHIVOS

  • COMMUNITY AMPLIFICATION

    Storytelling that focuses on the vibrant and historic locations and institutions that preserve the local culture of East Harlem and El Barrio.

  • VIRTUAL CURATOR

    Bringing audiences into art spaces and studios. Highlighting and unpacking our local artists who expand the visual and physical interpretations of the African Diaspora and its many cultures.

  • CONTENT CREATION

    Evergreen content for sharing and distribution of CCCADI Scholars work and research. Digestible storytelling and research based content

NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US IS A CCCADI DIGITAL SERIES WHERE WE EXPLORE AFRICAN DIASPORIC HISTORICAL EVENTS AND FIGURES. OUR STORIES, TOLD BY US.

History books and mainstream media have left out a lot of our community’s important leaders, movements and facts as they have attempted to tell us our stories. Nothing About Us Without Us takes control of our narrative! In each episode our host, Julissa Contreras dives into a different theme, event, or figure, to educate and empower our African Diasporic community. This series seeks to serve as a tool to affirm our community’s powerful identity. We must know where we came from to know where we are going, and we are more than what we’ve been told. In this first episode, we explore whether or not slavery has truly been abolished. By taking a look at Brazil’s coffee industry, the U.S. Industrial Prison Complex, and the impact of low wages on Black communities, this episode challenges the notion that slavery no longer exists. Nothing About Us Without Us is brought to you in collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

COQUITO MKRS

Coquito has been a staple cocktail for Puerto Rican holidays for generations, it has remained a cornerstone of Holiday traditions for many families in Puerto Rico and the Boricua Diaspora. The origins are contested, with it coming from unknown origins in Puerto Rico to being inspired by eggnog during the Spanish Colonial period. Regardless of its history it has been a holiday dinner mainstay for Caribbean households who have evolved Coquito to countless variations over the decades. @jonathanriveranyc , founder of Brooklyn Coquito @brooklyncoquito takes us on an exploration of how this drink has been a cultural conduit for family traditions and Boricua identity. Join him as he visits prominent coquito makers and asks the timely question everyone asks about coquito, “¿Quien lo hizo?”(“Who made it?”)