Thank you Mom, Dad and Yadira. Last summer, I graduated at 24 years of age. A little later than most, but that was due to some fooling around in HS that landed me in a community college for two years, instead of a four year college straight out. Today, seven years later, I walked with [...]

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Honestly, as time has gone on, its a question I realized I don’t care to answer. Life as a dark-skin Dominican hasn’t been easy on me psychologically. Its been kind of difficult and still is to an extent. Black folk criticize you when you say you’re Latino. Latino folks question you even being Latino. There’s [...]

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Congratulations to you! Your story is definitely an inspiration. Pena Mora also Dean of the American Dream. If you’d like to subscribe to this blog, click here

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Now, the title may confuse you because it makes it sound like I’m trying to term myself something aside from being a Black guy or not too fond of family members dating black men. Calmate manito y manitas. I will get into that whole discussion in the next chronicles where I will explore ‘what I [...]

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Some kids collected comic books and some collected sneakers. When I was young, I collected basketball cards. I would go to the Marlboro store on Nagle and Dyckman with Jason (RIP), Andy, and Ronald and cop basketball cards to trade in school. We’d spend all our lunch money on these things because whoever had the [...]

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No one has time – no one really does nowadays. So the time that you do have you have to make the most out of it right? After going to sleep at 2 A.M daily and watching stuff on my task list pile up, I decided it was time to get more productive and organized; [...]

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A special Mother’s day this past Sunday. I took my mom out to brunch along with my dad, sister, girlfriend, and future mother in law, Erica at La Grolla Restaurant on the Upper East Side. Special thank you to my friend, the owner Dan. He’s always a great host. After that we headed up to [...]

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About two years ago, when I was on a writing binge winning an award from the Independent Press Association (as my friend Carla did); writing for the oldest, black newspaper in the country, the New York Amsterdam News; being an editor for various Hip-Hop websites; getting invited to various seminars across the country and freelancing, [...]

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Growing up in the Dominican community, if you’re gay, it must be real tough to come out. With the recent proposal from Gov David Patterson to introduce same sex marriage, I wondered what a Dominican would think if I walked around the neighborhood and asked their opinions on gays. Really, I don’t have to walk [...]

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