It’s #Juneteenth y’all. On June 19, 1865, almost 3 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the enslaved people of Texas were informed that slavery was no longer the law of the land. The holiday is celebrated…
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The United States Supreme Court has blocked the Trump administration’s move to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has protected more than 800,000 young immigrants from deportation – including 50,000 New Yorkers. In a 5-4…
Que vaina. Check this out familia, Facebook took down our Black Lives Matter Uptown Pa’lante episode that premiered this past Monday. They can’t stop us though. We still on YouTube. Click below to check out the show that FB…
View this post on Instagram Father’s Day BLM Children’s March in Washington Heights this Sunday, 6/21 @ 2pm starting from Highbridge Park (172nd & Amsterdam Ave.) and ending at Fort Tryon Park (Corbin Drive entrance). All ages welcome! @kids4blacklives…
Today was a beautiful day in Upper Manhattan. A big group of us marched from Washington Heights to East Harlem/El Barrio to show that #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/H1VN0vIGCN — Juan Rosa (@JuanRosa_NYC) June 15, 2020 We invite you to subscribe to…
Shout out to the LA Shorts Film Festival for putting many of their films on YouTube. The one featured here, Moving On, stars the homie Elvis Nolasco. This man is such an amazing actor and human being and he…
The Inwood Film Festival Filmmaker Fund was created to financially support and encourage the creation of cinema in the Inwood NYC community, and to financially support the filmmaking of local Inwood NYC community filmmakers. Film projects shot by a…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bjorn Bolinder (@findthelightphotography) on Jun 7, 2020 at 5:39pm PDT We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter…
Listen up people, ¡Uptown Palante! is back at a new day and time so get familiar familia. Mino Lora of the People’s Theatre Project and our very own Led Black will be helping to start off your week with…
Buenos días. The expression of rage, love and “lucha” to change is everywhere. This is my neighborhood! pic.twitter.com/1tOtuKpaiY — Luis A. Miranda, Jr. (@Vegalteno) June 6, 2020 The Uptown Tweet of the Week goes to the incomparable Luis Miranda…