BY Led Black (@Led_Black) As I look back now on those days, I realized that what had begun, as a visceral response to the killing of Jose “Kiko” Garcia was really the culmination of the utter madness that Crack…
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BY Led Black (@Led_Black) July 1992 As soon as we stepped out of the 1 & 9 train station at 191st street, I could feel the electricity in the air. This was not unusual in the Washington Heights of…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) For the sake of full disclosure, Bernarda Moronta is my mom. She first arrived on these shores in the late 60’s and like the quintessential, hard-working Dominican mom, she has worked in a factory, as…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) My life-long addiction to sneakers began innocently enough with Kangaroos. You remember Roos; those were the sneakers that had a pocket with a zipper on the side. My friends and I would all keep a…
AN OPEN LETTER TO MY IPAD BY Led Black (@Led_Black) The waiting has not been in vain. Since I brought you home last night, I can’t stop touching you. Sometimes when you’re in sleep mode, I’ll just stare at…
BY Led Black I have a deep, disturbing and seriously unhealthy technology crush on the Apple iPad. The actual object of my desire is the 3G version that was released last week but due to its wow factor is…
BY Led Black That’s right folks; starting today, the viral revolution that we call the Uptown Collective is now also in print thanks to the invaluable and ubiquitous Manhattan Times. The Uptown Collective will now appear in the Manhattan…
If you don’t know what a Pale is, chances are, that you are not Dominican. A Pale is any combination of 2 numbers that a person chooses as their pick for the Dominican lottery. Typically, depending on…