If you know, you know. La Brega is not just a way of life but an art form. La Brega podcast ably hosted by Alana Casanova-Burgess sets out to define la brega and what it means to Boricuas. The entertaining and…
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The video above is the best 20 minutes you will spend online today. In fact, the speech is the best maiden speech in the Senate ever. Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, whose election in January helped to turn Georgia Blue…
Crack changed Washington Heights like many other communities of color across this country. There was Washington Heights B.C. (Before Crack) and what Washington Heights became after it. Uptown went from being a tough, working class neighborhood to being an…
Maria Hinojosa is one of our heroes. The pioneering journalist’s latest podcast series, Suave, is one you simply don’t want to miss. The engrossing audio series delves into “the system that sentences juveniles to life in prison, a story…
Could you imagine where we would be as a country if we would have not elected @JoeBiden to the presidency? — Luis A. Miranda, Jr. (@Vegalteno) March 12, 2021 Our Uptown Tweet of the Week goes to the one…
Happy Heightsiversary, everyone.13 years ago tonight, the opening night crowd was cheering so loud that I couldn't hear the clave beat to start the show. Looked to the wings for help: the cast was cheering too. Still in that…
On Sunday, March 9, 2008 In The Heights officially opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers theater. The rest is, as they say, history. In The Heights would go on to be nominated for thirteen Tony Awards and took…
Did you know one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen was Dominican? His name is Esteban Hotesse and he was a part of a group of soldiers who protested racial segregation in the armed forces. We invite you to subscribe…
Our Uptown Time Machine takes us back to January 9, 2011 to the final In The Heights showing on Broadway. Uptown own’s Lin-Manuel Miranda rapped his speech and dropped some prophetic gems. Check it out……
A month after his musical, ‘In The Heights’, opened on Broadway in 2008, Lin-Manuel Miranda took MTV News on a walk around the neighborhood. We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page…