Last week on Living in Spanglish radio, I interviewed PPT Candidate for Governor Rafael Bernabe, who spoke about various aspects of the Puerto Rico debt crisis. We spoke about the fiscal oversight board included in a House bill designed to impose austerity measures and colonial control over the island’s economic functions as a a way […]
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Okay let’s get this straight. Last week Obama free-styled on the White House lawn, apparently said he had the Oscar López Rivera matter “on his desk,” then took off for Havana, where he watched a baseball game and then on to Argentina to throw down with some tango dancers. Prominent members of the Puerto Rican/diaspora […]
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On Thursday’s edition of Living in Spanglish, I interviewed Rutgers-Newark professor Lyra Monteiro about her article “Race Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton” which appeared in the February 2016 issue of The Public Historian. We talked about the fact that aside from Sally Hemmings, who was Thomas Jefferson’s slave and […]
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Looks like there’s clearly been a problem with postcolonial representation. Some times you gotta put on the mask to take off the mask.
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The day after Reyes I found myself in la alacaldía de San Juan interviewing Draco Rosa, the genre-bending rock-pop singer-songwriter whose career began as a key member of the boy band Menudo, lurched forward into the rock en Español classic Vagabundo (produced by Roxy Music guitarist/glam rocker Phil Manzanera) and has perhaps climaxed with his Latin […]
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This essay was originally published on January 13th by the National Institute of Latino Policy newsletter, which asked a number of Latino opinion leaders across the United States to respond to the issues raised by journalist Roberto Suro in his January 2nd New York Times opinion piece, “Whatever Happened to Latino Political Power?” The “demography […]
Read more2015 was not an easy year to get through in many ways. A lot of troubling signs have appeared on the landscape: Continuing injustice toward people of color in the form of extra-judicial police killings of unarmed civilians, increasing wealth inequality, the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis, the continued threat of gentrification, out of control gun […]
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Just before Thanksgiving this year my four-part investigative series about whether or not Rikers Island prison complex could be saved by reforms or should be closed and replaced by small community justice centers was cross-published by City and State and City Limits. The series covers the cases made for both reform and closure, the history of […]
Read moreGlenn Martin, head of JustLeadershipUSA, an organization that advocates for prison and criminal justice reform, appeared on the November edition of Living in Spanglish Radio to talk about Rikers Island. A prominent source in my recently published four-part investigative series about whether reforms can really work in the Rikers Island detention complex or whether it […]
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