When Javier Ortiz accepted the award for Afro-Colombian journalist of the year earlier this month, he didn't mention Buenaventura, or Tumaco, or Chocó, or any of the other places where Afro-Colombians survive amid squalid and often desperate conditions. In fact, he didn't even mention Colombia. Instead, Ortiz recited the now-famous last words of Eric Garner , a 43-year-old black American who was killed some 2,000 miles away from Ortiz and his native Cartagena de las Indias. "To write, to question, to exalt, to investigate, to denounce, in the name of those who stop breathing, or those who are asphyxiating,...
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