Photos by Adeet Deshmukhm The brought turntables to the tumult. As Ricardo Rosselló stepped down as Governor of Puerto Rico, activists celebrated with a public perreo event at City Hall Park on August 2nd. Perreo is an energetic dance…
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Get ready to roll. Two days after a rally where elected officials and community members slammed the MTA for not providing shuttle buses while elevators at the 181st Street A train station are replaced, the agency agreed to run…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Un verano en Nueva York is about to get that much hotter. The 16th Annual New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF) returns August 12th through the 18th. NYLFF is the premier urban Latino film event…
The homie Manny Perez lit up social media this week when he posted the La Soga 2 teaser on his IG. It seems hard to believe that the first film came out in 2010. Well, we will all have…
Tom Wright of the NY Daily News penned an excellent opinion piece on how immigrants have resuscitated New York City and the nation repeatedly. Mr. Wright posits correctly that contrary to the ramblings of Tyrant Trump, immigrants are…
Watch my segment with @CNN Newsroom with @PoppyHarlowCNN & @jimsciutto calling for the impeachment of @realDonaldTrump #ImpeachmentNow https://t.co/m6Le15EWj9 via @YouTube — Adriano Espaillat (@RepEspaillat) August 2, 2019 We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like…
By Rev. Dr. Damaris D. Whittaker What is happening in Puerto Rico right now deserves everyone’s attention. This moment is an important one—for Puerto Ricans, for the Latinx diaspora and all people of color in the United States and…
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One of our heroes over here at the UC, Luis A. Miranda Jr., penned an outstanding piece on what comes next for the island of Puerto Rico in Time. The people of Puerto Rico need to be commended for…
By Debralee Santos The conversation these days requires bottom-line denigration, to rise above the churn and swill. Ricardo Rosselló is the first governor to step down since Puerto Ricans began electing their chief executives in 1947. As revealed by…