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Afro-Colombian, Black, Raizal, and Palenquero civil-rights activists holding signs protesting the Colombian census' erasure of Afro-descendants.

Afro-Colombian civil-rights activists in Bogota protest the "statistical genocide" of Afro-descendants in the Colombian census.

Photo courtesy of CNOA

These Colombian Civil Rights Activists Are Fighting to Make Sure Afro-Colombians are Counted in the Census

When 30 percent of Colombia's Black citizens disappeared from the data overnight, a group of Afro-Colombian activists demanded an explanation.