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Joana Gorjão Henriques has been a journalist at the leading national daily in Portugal, Público, since 2000; a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 2010; and a contributor to The Guardian. She is mainly a long-form writer who reports on racism, discrimination and social injustice. NOTE: Joana Gorjão Henriques describes herself as “white”. But, in the US (and many other countries), she would not be “white”… but, rather, a nonwhite Latina. This would imply that she had African and/or indigenous roots out of the Americas. Portuguese have had African blood running thru their families since the Moors came way back in the 700s AD! Then, this fact is compounded by the 500 years of Portuguese men and women having “intimate relations” with Africans during their slave trade/enslavement period as well as their colonial period.- SEA