It’s heartbreaking when those who are the worst off, keep getting hit the hardest.
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Entries Tagged as 'News'
Haiti…
January 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · News
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Dominican Chronicles Vol 9: Sammy Sosa…
November 10th, 2009 · 24 Comments · News
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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The death of Omar Edwards.
June 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments · News, Writing
‘Blue eyes/ Brown skin/ It seems like we can never win. Sean Bell’s gone and Omar rests/ the boys in blue/ all want us dead.’
Those were the words written on a large white cutout last Thursday morning on the downton 2 train when I got on at 96th street. A middle aged African American [...]
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Video: Anti-Obama sentiments in Israel
June 5th, 2009 · No Comments · News
Some people will call this shoddy video-journalism. Some will say Max Blumenthal and his camera crew recorded the thoughts of 100’s of people and decided to only play the drunken racists they encountered. Those are all valid points.
But, at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how many people he interviewed and who [...]
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Columbia University names Dominican native, Feniosky Pena Mora, Dean of Engineering School.
May 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, News
Congratulations to you! Your story is definitely an inspiration.
Pena Mora also Dean of the American Dream.
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Can Blacks criticize President Obama?
April 29th, 2009 · No Comments · News, Writing
After 100 days in office, it’s fair to say that President Obama, a man who the mainstream media helped assist to the presidency, has now turned into a media target.
It’s also fair to say that whether you agree with his policies or not, numbers do show that he’s become the most polarizing president of the [...]
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The Plight of Afro-Ecuadorians
April 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, News
You already know how I feel about these topics…
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Barack Obama Democratic Club of Upper Manhattan & Latinos 4 Change.
April 16th, 2009 · No Comments · My Hood, News
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 one of the [...]
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A Dominican Asst. Attorney General?
March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · News, Politics
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 of [...]
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Progress…
February 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · News
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 look [...]