Article: Much Ado About Straightening: Old Black Salons Face New Rivals. I’m the first person to admit that I don’t know a thing about women’s hair. My mom and sister are at the Dominican salon on Nagle Avenue regularly. There have been moments where I’ve heard them complain about certain Dominican hairstylists, but I’ve never [...]

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It’s heartbreaking when those who are the worst off, keep getting hit the hardest. Local drop-off/donation sites in Washington Heights & Inwood If you’d like to subscribe to this blog, click here

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I’ve never been a Sammy Sosa fan. When him and McGwire were hitting HR’s out of the park in the late 90′s, I wasn’t one of the Dominicans jumping up and down, hanging flags outside his window and throwing toilet paper into the street out here. I wasn’t spray-painting walls with his image. I wasn’t [...]

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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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You already know how I feel about these topics… If you’d like to subscribe to this blog, click here

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Barack Obama Democratic Club of Upper Manhattan Latinos 4 Change Last night, I got an email from an organization that I knew existed in Harlem, but didn’t know existed in my neck of the woods. You know – Washington Heights/Inwood also known as “anywhere past 155th street east of Edgecombe.” I got an email from [...]

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Congratulations to Tom Perez for gaining the post of Assistant Attorney General in President Obama’s administration. I’m very proud of this moment because he is a son of two Dominican immigrants who fled the DR during the time of the tyrant, Trujillo’s dictatorship. Perez, graduated from Brown undergrad, Harvard law school and its Kennedy School [...]

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Growing up in the Latino community, this represents “progress” to me. As a dark-skin Latino of Dominican parents, you run into racism from people of your own background growing up because of your skin color. I’ve encountered it myself. I’ve always felt there was a push to put Latinos out there as people who only [...]

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With the pending swearing-in of an African American President upon us, we can not forget one of the most important men in our history Dr. Martin Luther King. One of the thoughts that cross my mind with Obama being elected into office is will this holiday lose some significance? I know it sounds ludicrous, but [...]

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had their own country, they would be 16th in AIDS across the world and seven African nations would be behind them which earn emergency U.S. aid. People talk about the AIDS problem in Africa and rightfully so, but what about over here? Blacks are only 13 percent of the population, but represent 1 in every [...]

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