In this article, we outline the black cultural politics with the aim of pointing out how the black cultural difference manifested itself in Colombia. Firstly, we decentralize the concept of social movements for the study of black politics. Secondly, we propose the concept of afrocolombian counterpublics to explore the emergence of black public-spheres discarded by national and international scholars on social movements. And thirdly, we argue that these black public-spheres gave rise to a subaltern structure of politics through which blacks discussed and circulated issues related to race, racism, and black culture; discussions that were not part of official public-spheres (e.g. State, Congress, social sciences, education system, political parties, etc.) and social organizations (Union, leftist, and social organizations).