In The Heights, which premiered last Friday, June 11, did not get the warm box office welcome that it planned to, especially from the Black community.
Following its release, the Afro-Latinx community noticed that the Washington Heights-set film favored actors of a lighter complexion and didn’t accurately represent the Latin community as a whole.
With cast members including Anthony Ramos, Stephanie Beatriz, and Melissa Barrera, many have called out the overrepresentation of white-passing or lighter-skinned Latin actors and actresses.
The Black and Afro-Latinx communities expressed their outrage for the film’s lack of representation for darker-skinned Latinos and Latinas, which caught the eye of creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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