The Elixir Live: Eileen Z. Fuentes Will Be A Presenter At TEDMED On April 20
Brooklyn Free Clinic Presents TEDMED Live 2013 The Brooklyn Free Clinic Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM (EDT) That’s right folks, our very own Eileen Z. Fuentes will be a presenter at the TEDMED Conference on April 20, 2013, sponsored by the Brooklyn Free Clinic. This is a big deal! Her [...]
Latino Neighborhoods: Improving Health Through Ethnic Pride? | PRI The World
By Audrey Quinn If you take the subway to the northern tip of Manhattan, you’ll find yourself in Washington Heights, a largely Dominican neighborhood. Poverty is worse here than in most areas of New York, but “there are certain health indicators here that suggest that Washington Heights is doing better than other neighborhoods,” says Columbia [...]
Uptown Tonight: Raquel Cepeda @ The Shabazz Center
Related: Uptown Gem – The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Center I Am A Dominican York Dominicanese 101: A Primer Led Black: Un Pie Aqui y Uno Alla | Huffington Post The 2012 Uptown Arts Stroll Closing Reception @ Arka Lounge The 2012 Uptown Arts Stroll Kick-Off – The Recap We invite you to [...]
Growing Up Gonzales – The Review
BY Jonathan Ullman (@gogoPatienceCnP) When the character of Johnny Gonzales enters the set of his dead brother Cisco’s apartment to clean it out in the opening moments of Growing Up Gonzales, you’d think you’re in for a night of melancholia and introspection at the theatre. But you’d be wrong. Growing Up Gonzales, starring Luis Antonio Ramos in [...]
Limited Engagement: Growing Up Gonzalez
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Caribbean Crossroads Symposium @ El Museo del Barrio
SYMPOSIUM: Caribbean Crossroads Keynote Address by Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott October 11 – 13, 2012 at El Museo del Barrio and The Studio Museum in Harlem In conjunction with the current exhibition CARIBBEAN: Crossroads of the World, El Museo del Barrio, the Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem present a three-day [...]
Ron Renaissance To Perform @ Camaradas Tomorrow
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My Heart – Bernarda Moronta
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Today is my mother’s birthday. I feel extremely fortunate to have been born to a Dominican mother. For those that don’t know, Dominican mothers in particular and Latino mothers in general, are much more than mothers to their children especially their boys. Throughout my life, my mom has been my confidante, [...]
Celia Cruz Wins the Frame an Iconic American Contest
Okay folks the results are in. After more than 11,000 votes were cast, our beloved Celia Cruz has been chosen, by a wide margin, to be memorialized in a new biographical portrait by the renowned photographic artist, Robert Weingarten. But the museum stills need your help! Weingarten constructs his unique layered images by allowing his [...]
La Casa Azul Bookstore Grand Opening Celebration this Friday
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Celia Cruz in the Running for a Portrait in the Smithsonian
Guess what folks? The National Museum of American History has a contest in the works to create a portrait of an American icon that will be showcased in the museum. Out of the 5 nominees, the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz is the only Latino. Voting ends on May 26th, 2012, so make sure you [...]
I Am A Dominican York
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) I am a Dominican York. According to the Urban Dictionary, a Dominican York is either a Dominican immigrant living and working in New York City or an American-born person of Dominican descent who was raised in NYC. Originally the term was used derisively to refer to the drug dealers and criminals [...]
Drop That Wishbone & Get a Backbone
BY Larissa Vasquez (@lariluv) My mom always tells me not to fall in love by myself. “La peor cosa del mundo es enamorarse sola (The worst thing in the world is to fall in love by yourself)”. She would repeat this time and time again while I was in college. The first time, when I [...]
Our American Dream: Mino Lora Brings Theater To The Masses | Fox News Latino
Written By Kacy Capobres Across the United States, in all fields of endeavor, Latinos are working to uphold their place in American society. Fox News Latino is proud to present “Our American Dream” – a series of snapshots and profiles of Latino success stories. When Mino Lora came to the United States 12 years ago [...]
Prayer, history and politics: a call for a Latino – and local – Congressional district | Manhattan Times
By Debralee Santos and Sandra E. García With a powerful mix of prayer and politics, a rally held this past Fri., Feb. 10th at the United Palace Cathedral in Washington Heights, gathered over a hundred community residents, civic leaders, and local elected officials to push for the state to draw a majority-Latino Congressional district. Just [...]
UC Love: Download Your Free Copy of Los Rakas “Raka Love” EP
Oakland-via-Panama’s Los Rakas dropped their Love-Themed 9-song EP, ‘Raka Love’ yesterday for free. The video for the first single, ”’Copita De Champaña’ premiered on MTV Tr3s recently. Los Rakas have been putting down some next-level Spanish language Hip-Hop for some time now and this EP is another awesome example of their musical prowess. Get it [...]
‘Testimonios,’ Popular Arts at El Museo del Barrio | NY Times
By ROBERTA SMITH As permanent collections go, El Museo del Barrio’s is on the modest side. The museum’s Web site puts the tally of objects it owns at just 6,500, a far cry from the Met’s nearly two million. But El Museo del Barrio has something few other New York museums can touch: some 10 [...]
The Female Paradox
BY Larissa Vasquez (@lariluv) My father thought I’d be pregnant by the time I reached my fifteenth birthday. I know this because my mother repeated the last words he told her before they separated over and over during my adolescence. It was easy for him to say that. After all, he moved back to the [...]
The Complexity of Latino Diversity | Huff Post: Latino Voices
By Eduardo Diaz – Director of the Smithsonian Latino Center The other day I ran into colleagues at the soon-to-be National Museum of African American History and Culture. We share offices in the same Smithsonian building and check in occasionally. “So,” I say, “When are you going to start taking care of my Dominican peeps; [...]
The Language Barrier
BY Larissa Vasquez (@lariluv) The night before I moved to New York City from the Dominican Republic I was on an emotional roller coaster. Well, as much as one could be between the ages of 5 and 10. Basically, I was trying to juggle feeling excited about being on a plane for the first time [...]
Win A Pair of Tickets to See Munchi @ DROM Tomorrow Courtesy of #FUTUREROOTS
SANDUNGUEO || ( MUNCHI LIKES WELCOME HOME PARTIES EDIT ) Friday, January 13th | 11 PM – 4 AM @ DROM (85 Avenue A) The long awaited return of Munchi has arrived! Promoting the release of his new “Moombahtonista” EP on the Mad Decent label and performing live on stage with Sazon Booya, who are [...]
Save the Date: An Homage to Piri Thomas @ El Museo February 18th
Saturday, February 18, 2012 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Join El Museo (1230 5th Ave) for a special presentation of SPEAK UP! in memory of Piri Thomas, author and poet who shed light on the struggles of nuestra gente with his book, Down These Mean Streets. Throughout his life, he soulfully delivered an array [...]
Word Up Books Presents a Bi-Lingual Reading by Novelist David Unger this Wednesday
Word Up a community bookshop in Northern Manhattan 4157 Broadway @ 176 Street June 17 – July 14, 2011 www.wordupbooks.com Word Up on New York Times | Manhattan Times | Uptown Collective | Fbook We invite you to like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter, or e-mail us at UptownCollective@gmail.com. Your email:
To Cook or Not To Cook
BY Larissa Vasquez (@lariluv) These are a few things I’m not very proud of, some really shameful things that I should probably keep to myself and not shout on the highest peak of the Internet Mountain. The key word being ‘probably’ since I’m about to take a deep breath and reveal a couple of those. [...]
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