ED MORALES

A few months ago a poetry series at El Museo del Barrio (peripherally located on 5th Avenue in El Barrio/Spanish Harlem) called “Spic Up/Speak Out” got so many folks riled up that El Museo caved just a week later and changed the name of the series. Apparently, the s-word has not lost its temporary currency […]

You may or may not agree with my recent op ed (which has spread like wildfire from the Bellingham (Washington) Herald to the Cleveland Plain Dealer) that argues that Puerto Ricans are being saddled with an unfair burden by having their birth certificates invalidated en masse by the U.S. State Department and the so-called government […]

Today’s pronouncements from Qatar seem to confirm what’s been bubbling under the surface for several months now. With the filibuster game even more complicated by nude model Scott Brown’s election to the U.S. Senate–his vote seemingly ensuring no meaningful Congressional action on health care and jobs, as if there were any bipartisan hope to begin […]

Yeah we’re pretty sick of Sarah right now. If you listen to the speech she made at the Teabagger, sorry, Tea Party convention on Saturday, you’ll hear stuff that barely qualifies as more intelligible than pure drivel. Much has been said about the hypocrisy of her using crudely handwritten notes on the palm of her […]

It’s a classic New Yorker cover. We’re at the point where figuring out what Obama is doing has become a painful exercise. The latest rumor, that he will announce a 3-year spending freeze at the upcoming State of the Union address, seems to confirm that the Democratic Party has become Wall Street’s party. Main Street, […]

Not going with an image here because we’ve been bombarded with them. The worst natural disaster in our lifetime is beyond tragic, particularly because those who are suffering have suffered enough over the last several decades. The people of Haiti have become martyrs, and represent perhaps the last hope that the conscience of the Western […]

The most sensible analysis of the Harry Reid “Negro” fiasco is that it is one more mainstream media-led distraction from various turmoils such as the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, the still perilous fate of health-care reform, the looming immigration-reform debate, and the unemployment and mortgage crises.  As heard on Errol Louis’s WWRL morning show, the […]

It was something anyone who’s spent any time uptown over the last couple of years is well aware of. By losing it’s blackness, Harlem has become the new black. The latest New York Times “fait accompli” report, this time by Sam Roberts, was the culmination of a series of real-time real-estate oriented dispatches from younger […]