José Rivera – ED MORALES

America and Race, Hemispheric Identity, Latinos and Race, Puerto Rico's Colonial Status, Urban/Global Politics, US Intervention in Latin America

Why POTUS Needs to Set Oscar Free: An Interview with José López

On December 4th I interviewed José López, whose brother Oscar López Rivera is a Puerto Rican political prisoner in the U.S, for Living in Spanglish Radio. He has been held over 35 years and over 100,000 have signed a petition asking President Obama to pardon him before the end of his term in office. José […]

Artists in the hood, Latinos in Hollywood, Urban/Global Politics

One Degree of Separación: Latin@s Still Invisible in Hollywood

When I got wind last month of the unexpected passing of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, I was of course, saddened, and then contemplated it as another New York tragedy about a Downtown artist with great talent whose death garnered headlines because he had managed to break thorough into Hollywood celebrity. In other words, a story close […]

Urban/Global Politics

“On the Road” Burns the Candle on Both Ends

Sam Riley (left), Kristen Stewart (center), and Garrett Hedlund (right) in Walter Salles’ film version of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel, ‘On the Road.’ (Gregory Smith/Courtesy of IFC Films) Early on in Walter Salles and José Rivera’s adaptation of the classic 1957 Jack Kerouac novel On the Road, the film’s narrator, Sal Paradise, makes clear what drives him […]