BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Nothing stops New Yorkers… This past Monday, February 3rd, with Mother Nature dumping almost 8 inches of snow on the winter-weary metropolis, cool creative folks from all over the city converged on the Lower East…
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Hydrant is a publication celebrating Uptown NYC, published by Fractious Press. The night’s reading includes some of the literary contributors to the first issue: Led Black, Yakira Tejada, Alison Loeb, and MJ Murphy! The first issue is being created…
Story, photos and video by Sherry Mazzocchi Led Black is an artist, writer, entrepreneur and publisher of The Uptown Collective. “I like to think of Dominicans as the first Americans,” he said. The first school, church and university were…
Story, photos and video by Sherry Mazzocchi Rosita Romero is the Executive Director of the Dominican Women’s Development Center, located in Washington Heights. For more than 30 years, she has actively defended the rights of people in the community.…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Okay, so here is the deal. Jon Ullman of Trouble In The Heights fame and I are working on the definitive documentary on the infamous street libation known as the Nutcracker. The film is not…
Story and video by Sherry Mazzocchi A Dominican court ruling recently revoked the citizenship of all people born of foreign-born parents since June of 1929. The ruling applies to anyone born between 1929 and 2010, and impacts somewhere between…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Let’s get right to it people. Here are the Top 10 Posts of 2013.…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) I am SOOOOOO happy that you will no longer be the Mayor of this great city. You have no idea. I REALLY MEAN THAT! (All caps on purpose – so take that.) I am ridiculously…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) It’s the Holidays folks and there is a bunch of stuff happening this holiday weekend. So without further ado, here it goes. Due to popular demand, the Spread Love It’s The Uptown Way Tees are…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Social media has changed, literally, everything. It has toppled governments, upended regimes and cast much-needed light on atrocities and bad behavior across the globe. Events that take place halfway around the world are beamed almost…