Sunday, June 10, 2007

Que Viva Puerto Rico

Here's an e-zine article written (with photos) by Eliud Martinez (also known as DeLares) about the "Puerto Rican Day Parade, Remixed" exhibit reception in Manhattan:
http://www.nowpublic.com/american_ethnic_parades_as_forms_of_cultural_performance
For photos depicting the parade, go to:
"Puerto Rican Day Parade, Remixed" FLICKR group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/393849@N23/

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Film

¡Pálante, Siempre Pálante!
The Young Lords
Friday, June 8, 6:30 pm
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street
Free with Museum Admission

By Iris Morales (1996). Followed by a panel discussion with the director. The story of the Young Lords, the Puerto Rican civil-rights organization formed in the early 1970s, which occupies a unique place in New York's history.

RSVP AT (718) 681-6000,Ext. 102 or education@bronxmuseum.org

a veces nadie viene a verme


Saturday, June 02, 2007

Featured story

23 from Puerto Rico graduate as city police
By Nicole Fuller
(Baltimore) Sun reporter
Originally published June 2, 2007
They left behind their homes near the beach. Their young children. The ease of speaking in the language of their homeland. Twenty-three men and women left behind their lives in Puerto Rico for the chance to work as police officers in a city many had never heard of - Baltimore.

Yesterday, a class of graduates of the city's police academy - the first with a large group of Puerto Ricans since the department led a recruitment effort on the island last year - received their diplomas in a ceremony that not only acknowledged their service, but celebrated their diversity.

For more, www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-te.ci.graduation02jun02,0,1637634.story?track=rss