BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Don’t get me wrong I find Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comments morally reprehensible, ignorant and totally and decidedly pre-modern but there is a silver lining. The fact is that the comments could not have come…
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BY Led Black (@Led_Black) I don’t know if people that espouse “birther” views fundamentally understand how hurtful those comments are to Latinos, immigrants and people of color. Birtherism is basically a shrill demand to the American President, the leader…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Before anyone was talking about an Uptown Renaissance, Jason Devereaux was there on Dyckman Street doing the heavy lifting. Before the now lively corner of what has been dubbed Inwood Boulevard was the place to…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Photography by Paul Lomax (@PaulLomaxPhoto) Instead of planning their Thanksgiving festivities John Collado’s loved ones are mourning his tragic death at the hands of police during a botched undercover arrest in early September. Buoyed by…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) My mom, a native of the Dominican Republic, has been a citizen of this country since 1989. She has not missed an election since then. Rain or shine, sun or snow, national election or local;…
BY Led Black The Manhattan Times is reporting that our beloved Mamajuana has had their alcohol license renewed by the State Liquor Authority over the objection of Community Board 12. The icing on the cake is that “the nightspot…