This is a multilayered account of being a Black person in the historically Black-majority town of Piñones in the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico through the eyes of the author and other Black women. The author seeks to interrupt and counter predominant perceptions of Black women and their roles in the community. The presence and effects of internalized anti-Black racism are studied and analyzed in dialogue with the work of Frantz Fanon. Also crucial is the formation of community-based responses to the persistence of racism, including the creation and ongoing work of the Corporación Piñones se Integra (COPI).