Dear Readers,

We present the new number of the ABPN's journal, Brazilian Association of Black researchers, which bases its productions on publishing quality, focusing on promoting the Human Rights of the black population in Latin America and Caribbean. The texts presented here on this 27^th edition contemplate History, Sociology, Education and the Arts, on their different approaches and multiple inter-relations. They also have a wider contribution, with papers and essays of prominent Latin American researchers and intellectuals who lean over the discussion about the African diaspora, its consequences and effects in the formation of the continent, brought in the Thematic Dossier "African Diaspora: Present Actions and Prospects for the Future", organized by Prof. Anny Ocoro Loango (UNTREFF), Prof. Marcos de Jesus Oliveira (UNILA), Prof. Roberto Carlos da Silva Borges (CEFET/RJ).

Despite the fact that many Latin American and Caribbean intellectuals and researchers have produced significant and important literature about the Black and Afro-descendants populations, peoples and communities in this continent, the absence of an ongoing, articulated and permanent debate about this topic is notorious, between and from the different perspectives produced by numerous Latin American countries. Thus, the journal African Diaspora of the Association of African-American and Caribbean Researchers takes on, since the first published issue, launched in partnership with the ABPN's journal, the challenge of fomenting, now and in the future, a closer relationship between the theoretical production of these many countries about the black and Afro-descendant thematic.

We thank the collaborators, peer reviewers, authors, translators, editors, Editorial Board, Consulting Board, Board of Directors and other staff members/partners that enabled publishing this 27^th edition, as well as every researcher. Our sincere thanks to all who contribute to the ABPN's journal!

Modupé (We say thanks)!

Editorial Board

Nicéa Quintino Amauro (UFU)

Luciana de Oliveira Dias (UFG)

Paulo Vinicius Baptista da Silva (UFPR)