someone since you were real young and they see you on the street and act like they don’t know you? I mean, they look you in the face and then walk right by you. I don’t understand. I guess they must think they’re better than me. I’m not mad or anything, but saying hi doesn’t [...]

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Location: 230 5th. Pictured: Claudito and Tone The Referee. Thoughts: This summer me and Tone were flying high. On this specific night, we both ended up wearing white blazers looking like we belonged in Miami Tubbs and Crockett style. Anywho, anyone who knows the lines at 230 5th knows it’s a b*tch to get in [...]

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This is going to be a great month for me (I hope for all my readers as well). As the days pass, this blog will tell you exactly why. If you’d like to subscribe to this blog, click here

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Colorism from Jennifer D. on Vimeo. Link: Colorism Documentary This short documentary focuses on Colorism. The topics include Wale’s video “Pretty Girls” which was criticized for it’s absence of women of color (dark-skin women), as well as Sammy Sosa’s skin lightening. The featured speakers are myself, Webcaster Joy Daily, and NYU Professor Ed Guerrero. The [...]

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to open a business a month from now. I had the paperwork, my website designer, accountants, lawyers, promotional ideas, and a general idea of what the stationery would look like. When I brought the idea to my Entrepreneur Class in Midtown Manhattan everyone thought it was great. I knew it could succeed and so did [...]

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Ahh the good ol’ days. I’m standing up right behind #12. We called ourselves “The Bench Mob” like the old Sacramento Kings. Shoutout to Cuzzi, Justin, Gogo, Shawn, Clive, Void, S. Brown. If you’d like to subscribe to this blog, click here

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- I recently signed on to be a contributor with Uptown Collective. It’s a great blog that focuses on Washington Heights and Inwood. Many blogs do this well already, but it’s written by fellow Dominicans which is great to see and it’s done on a dope level. Special shout-out to both Leo’s, Carolina, and the [...]

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I guess its normal that people always want to be able to label you. It’s probably because they can then define you. The other day, I gave my ticket reselling business card to a local bar owner I know. He was like: ‘This is what you do 9 to 5?’ I said that’s just something [...]

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A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with a close friend over lunch. We spoke about one specific job I applied for that I didn’t land and my blog came up. A blog where I post pictures of me out and about at parties, traveling, talk about racial issues amongst Latinos, speak about [...]

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I’ve been gone for a while, so I figure I’d update you on what I’ve been doing. – Recently, I wrote a piece focusing on Haitian/Dominican relations which I’ll post here soon. I pitched it to a few sites/publications and am waiting for answers on whether they’ll accept it or not. Thanks to everyone (Ricardo, [...]

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