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¡Uptown Palante! With Mino Lora: Episode 3

If you missed this week’s episode of ¡Uptown Palante! With Mino Lora, don’t worry we got you. This week’s special guest is Maria Lizardo of the mighty NMIC. Also, our founder and EIC interviews Uptown treasure, Veronica Liu, of…

¡Uptown Palante! With Mino Lora

Have you seen ¡Uptown Palante! With Mino Lora yet? Well, what are you waiting for? In these dark days, we all need a little Uptown Love and light. Every week we highlight and amplify the stories of joy and…

04/30/20: ¡Uptown Palante! With Mino Lora

Do you suffer from the Trump Coronavirus Blues? Well, here comes The People’s Theatre Project (PTP) to the rescue. Starting next Thursday, April 30 at 2 pm tune in to PTP’s FB Live for the inaugural episode of ¡Uptown…

Uptown Talk: Latinos Out Loud – A Zoom With a View

The crew talks about barber antibodies, octagon schemes, cartoon theme song DJ battles and clean urine currency. Then on their special Quarantine segment, “Zoom Crashers”, they welcome Filmmaker Ramon Presante, TV & Radio Host Chuey Martinez, and comedian/content creator…

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Op-Led: Democracy Is Dying

BY Led Black (@Led_Black) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cole Thompson (@inwood_cole) on Feb 14, 2020 at 5:58am PST You can respect the presidency or you can respect this President. You can’t do both. This may well…

New Yorkers call for justice in Garner death | Manhattan Times

By Gregg McQueen “I am going to stand outside, and I am going to scream it.” Emerald Garner’s voice then rose sharply. “Pantaleo needs to be fired! Pantaleo needs to be fired!” Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, was blunt…

Op-Led: I Still Can’t Breathe

BY Led Black (@Led_Black) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Uptown Collective (@uptowncollectiv) on Jul 17, 2019 at 8:44am PDT 5 years ago today, Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six and a grandfather of three,…

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Mood Music: Juan Luis Guerra – Literal

BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Juan Luis Guerra is arguably the greatest musician the Dominican Republic has ever produced. He is also one of the greatest songwriters of all time, bar none. He is part of a rarefied class of…

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The 1992 Washington Heights Riots Remembered

BY Led Black (@Led_Black)             View this post on Instagram                         A post shared by Uptown Collective (@uptowncollectiv) on Jul 4, 2019 at…