Story by Madeleine Cummings and Sherry Mazzocchi Video by Sherry Mazzocchi On his first day of school in Puerto Rico, Luis Gutiérrez was shocked to learn he did not know his own name. Growing up in Chicago, he said…
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BY Led Black (@Led_Black) The first ever Uptown Lit Festival, which took place on Saturday, October 19th at The United Palace of Cultural Arts and Word Up Community Bookshop was an unequivocal success. Not only did we have a…
Jon Ullman and Led Black will discuss their upcoming documentary feature film, Nutcracker Inc, and preview select clips. Beverages (ahem) will be served. The story of the enigmatic and elusive elixir known as the Nutcracker, the film not only…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) DigiBunch, one of the nation’s most influential Hispanic communities online, recently announced it’s list of 20 Latino cultural leaders for its 2nd annual Latino Trailblazers video series and I was chosen as one of a…
Gagá pa’l Pueblo takes place every summer on Sundays in the Anne Loftus Playground on Dyckman Street as well as other places in the Heights and beyond. Gagá pa’l Pueblo is an all-out celebration of Afro-Dominican identity that welcomes,…
Photography by Art By Dj Boy (@ArtByDjBoy) On September 13th and 20th, Led Black from the Uptown Collective came to address the 5th period Future Project class at The College Academy, which is housed in the George Washington High…
That’s right people; the good folks at ProyectoNext are giving away tickets to the New York City Premiere of The House That Jack Built on Wednesday, October 2nd at 7:30 PM. It’s gets better people, the tickets include an…
BY Andrea Gompf Mayor Bloomberg and his special Fireworks Crackdown Division tried their hardest to bust every DL sparkler vendor in the five boroughs this summer – but from the looks of the video teaser below, that didn’t put…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) It never fails, once September rolls around I get a bad case of the end-of-summer blues. Then like clockwork, I get a reminder that while summer may be over, that good old Uptown magic remains.…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Uptown Hip-Hop heavyweight, Dark ATM, has just dropped the long-awaited The Money Zone II. I had the honor of listening to a few of the unreleased tracks a few weeks ago and I was seriously…