Forgotten Queen - ANACAONA

Описание: Provided to YouTube by Translation Enterprises d/b/a United Masters
Producer: Mixed by Maribel R. Brooks, director and editor.
Music: Africa
Released on: 2026-02-02.
Short Film: ANACAONA

Discussion about concerns in our Black history. For many of us, Anacaona exists first as a song - a melody passed down from generation to generation, repeated, danced to. We know the name of the song we keep listening to and singing to, but we are rarely taught who she truly was.
When I studied Anacaona, I always wondered why I never heard of her! But I once promised myself I would try to make her known...my own way! -childhood memory/
I discovered a Black Indigenous Taino woman, a queen, dancer, poet, and leader whose life was deliberately erased from history. Anacaona was not a myth. She was not a lyric. She was a woman who governed her people with creativity, love, peace, wisdom, and diplomacy. She was beyond her time & they hated her! Before the violent arrival of colonization in the Caribbean, she welcomed them!
Anacaona believed in peace before war. She used art, ceremony, dance, and language as power. That power frightened those who sought control, and for that reason, she was publicly executed. Her death was meant to silence not only her but generations of women like her.
What struck me most is how familiar this erasure feels. We celebrate the song, but not the history, and yet forget the woman. We repeat the name yet lose the story. Recovering Anacaona is not about the past- it is about reclaiming the presence of Black women whose leadership, intelligence, and humanity were stripped from historical memory.
To remember Anacaona is to say:
"WE ARE STILL HERE, AND OUR STORIES LIKE MINES & YOURS MATTER!"

I created this trailer in minutes, and I am embracing my editing and directing skills to another whole level.... this Puerto Rican is directing!
I truly hope this short film can bring light to all. #Film#Trailer#BlackHistoryMonth #studies #History#1400s #editedbyMaribelRamosBrooks & director #creatorofVO #writer #illustrator #tvproducer