Journey of a Female Comic chronicles the highs and lows of a Latina actress/comedian as she struggles to make it in Hollywood. It’s a comical portrayal of what it takes to achieve success in a town where people confuse…
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By David Frank | October 27th, 2008 One of our favorite NY Times’ columnists, Charles Blow, came Uptown back in October of 2008 to talk with voters in Fort Tryon Park about immigration, race and other issues.…
In Part 1 of Fresh Off the Boat – NYC, Eddie travels north to the Bronx, Washington Heights and Inwood, where he and WorldStarHipHop star Loopy hit up local bodegas, chow down on a Japanese-Dominican plantain mash-up disaster, and…
By KATE TAYLOR Adriano Espaillat, the Dominican-born state senator from Upper Manhattan who nearly deposed Representative Charles B. Rangel in 2012, said on Thursday that he would challenge Mr. Rangel, the 22-term Harlem Democrat, again in the primary in…
A message of solidarity from Washington Heights to the DR and the world. We will not accept the discriminatory ruling of the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal against our Dominican brothers and sisters. Strip citizenship from 200,000 of our own citizens?…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) I find this story deliciously ironic in light of the much-deserved international outrage that was caused by the recent ruling of the highest court in the Dominican Republic, which rendered far too many Haitian-Dominicans stateless.…
This past September 23, the Constitutional Court (the highest court!) in the Dominican Republic ruled that thousands of Dominicans, who have lived as Dominican citizens, protected by the Constitution and current laws for over 8 decades, are to be…
Photography by Art By Dj Boy (@ArtByDjBoy)…
Story by Madeleine Cummings and Sherry Mazzocchi Video by Sherry Mazzocchi On his first day of school in Puerto Rico, Luis Gutiérrez was shocked to learn he did not know his own name. Growing up in Chicago, he said…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) The first ever Uptown Lit Festival, which took place on Saturday, October 19th at The United Palace of Cultural Arts and Word Up Community Bookshop was an unequivocal success. Not only did we have a…