BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Just wanted to thank everybody for supporting and showing love to this project. I think we have created some real buzz in the streets of Washington Heights and beyond. The fact that our good friends…
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BY Led Black (@Led_Black) You could hear the merengue music blaring from miles away. The float carrying candidate Hipolito Mejia of the PRD party made its way slowly and loudly through the streets that were filled with people dressed…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Nutcracker Inc Video 1 from gogoPatience c+p on Vimeo. Ok folks, so I have teamed up with my friend Jon Ullman of the movie GWB to produce what will be the definitive documentary on the…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) For this week’s Throw Back Thursdays post, we are highlighting our site’s most popular post to date, The Nutcracker. First appearing in February 2010, the story has generated thousands upon thousands of hits and still…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Being that Latinos will be a majority in this country in about 3 weeks or so and that Dominicans are the biggest group of Latinos in NYC, I feel extremely fortunate to be trilingual. Yes,…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) The Dominican Republic and Dominicans lost someone of great importance this week. Rafael Corporán de los Santos (July 22, 1937 – March 5, 2012) known simply as Corporán died of an apparent heart attack on…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Q. How has growing up Uptown influenced your artwork? A. My work has primarily been based on my experience growing up Uptown from my youth into adulthood. The people in the environment I was raised…
Photography by Art By Dj Boy (@ArtByDjBoy)…
“Llegué yo, la hija de Esperanza la billetera. Cobrá, cansá, cabriá, con celular y celulitis. ¡Cámbiame los vasos y los hombres!” From the book Levente no.Yolayorkdominicanyork Ay Ombe Theatre, Casa Verde Camila and Broadway Housing Communities present Levente no.Yolayorkdominicanyork.…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/Led_Black/status/174310393307602945″] This past Monday was the 168th anniversary of Dominican Independence and what an awesome Febrero 27th it was. First off, the words Dominican Independence Day were trending on Twitter. Say Word! Everyone from…

