BY Led Black (@Led_Black) After all the voting horror stories I was hearing from various sources, I was thinking I was going to be in for a long night. When I first arrived at my new polling place, the…
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BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Even though I was born and have lived in the United States for almost all of my life, I never felt truly American until Barack Obama’s historic run for the Presidency in 2008. Until that…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) November 8th 2016 No nation had ever fallen so far so fast. Historians will one day describe the decline as ‘precipitous’. On Election night 2012, President-Elect Mitt Romney gave an acceptance speech that was brittle,…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) “Latinos for Republicans – it’s like roaches for raid.” – John Leguizamo We are the new America. We are what tomorrow looks like. Nothing can stop us but ourselves. We are the proverbial 800-pound-gorilla in…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Junot Díaz is one of my heroes. Until I read Drown, I didn’t even really believe that I could be a writer. After consuming that book whole, I was irrevocably changed. More than just relatable,…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) My name is Led Black and I am a WNYC addict. I listen to it all day, everyday. Whether it’s on the radio at home or in the car, streaming on my MAC, or on…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) I remember thinking when I first read Drown, damn Junot Díaz is a genius. Well, he is now officially a genius. Earlier this week, the MacArthur Foundation announced their 2012 MacArthur Fellows and the immensely…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) The term “un pie aqui y uno alla” (one foot here and one foot there) succinctly describes the bi-national existences led by many of the Dominicans and Dominican-Americans in the United States. Living and working…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Photography by Paul Lomax (@PaulLomaxPhoto) Okay the summer can end now. Last night was the rain date for the A Toast Fort Tryon Park function that usually takes place earlier in the season. A Toast…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) On September 19, 2008 my life was turned upside down. On that fateful day, my wife and mother of our 3 young girls, Eileen Z. Fuentes, was diagnosed with breast cancer. To make matters worse,…