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That’s right familia. Morir Soñando made history back in November 2023 as the United Palace’s first all-Dominican comedy show. It’s about to go down again, on Dominican Independence Day, no less. This time their will be 2 shows and our usual after party at the flyest place Uptown, Jalao. So there you have it folks, tickets went on sale yesterday and they are going fast. Don’t get left out. Click below and get your tickets ASAP. Shout out to the 2 powerhouses Glorelys Mora and Sasha Merci who are the engines that make the Morir Soñando train run.
Much love goes to Johanna Ferreira for this wonderful write up on PopSugar on our history making event back in November of last year at the venerable and beloved United Palace. The article perfectly captured the significance, magic and moxie of the event. Read the article below and then click on the link to get your tickets to see Morir Soñando later this month at the United Palace on Dominican Independence Day, February 27.
Stephen MIller is evil. So is his boss, Donald Trump. Ronald Brownstein penned an excellent piece in The Atlantic that will give you the chills. The article delves into Trump’s plan to put forth “the Largest Domestic Deportation Operation in History.” The dastardly duo are also planning a red state private army that will, by force if necessary, deports millions in blue states. The paragraph below is absolutely frightening.
“What this means is that the communities that are heavily Hispanic or Black, those marginalized communities are going to be living in absolute fear of a knock on the door, whether or not they are themselves undocumented,” David Leopold, a former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told me. “What he’s describing is a terrifying police state, the pretext of which is immigration.”
“History must restore what slavery took away.” Arturo Schomburg
We should be eternally grateful for the one and only Arturo Schomburg for his part in educating, galvanizing and uniting the Black Diaspora. The struggle continues…
In this episode of About the Journey, join host Oneika Raymond as she runs the streets of Washington Heights in New York City alongside Hector Espinal, co-founder of We Run Uptown. See as they explore the the bustling St. Nicholas Ave to check out some famed street vendors and then grab a traditional Dominican breakfast at La Casa del Mofongo. Over the meal, Hector and Oneika connect over their shared Caribbean roots, as Hector shares what it was like for him growing up in Washington Heights. Then, they visit J. Hood Wright Park with one of the best views of the George Washington Bridge you’ll ever see!
To read the full episode transcript from About the Journey and see more photos click here.
On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his first major public statement against the Vietnam War, aptly entitled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence,” right here in Uptown, NYC at the venerable Riverside Church. Starting off the magnificent sermon with “my conscience leaves me no other choice,” King, in no uncertain terms, denounced the Vietnam War as immoral, grotesque and anti-democratic. He would be assassinated within the year, exactly to the date of the sermon, on April 4, 1968. By speaking so eloquently and forcibly against the war, he was deemed worthy of elimination by the powers that be. King paid the ultimate price for his outspokenness. He could not remain silent then and we cannot remain silent now as “silence is betrayal.” WE MUST SPEAK!!!
“Perhaps a more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. And so we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. And so we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would hardly live on the same block in Chicago. I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor.”
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