This edition of Living in Spanglish Radio features an interview with Amilcar Priestly, co-director of New York’s Afro-Latino Festival. In our conversation we talk about the growing need for and efficacy of expressing an Afro-Latino identity and even talk a little about its connection with Black Lives Matter. I also play music featured at the […]
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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 […]
Read moreFilm director Macdara Vallely came to the Bronx from Northern Ireland and quickly decided he wanted to use the Boogie Down as the canvas for his next film, Babygirl, which will make its theatrical debut this Friday, October 4th at the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village. I met Macdara through some mutual friends, and immediately I understood […]
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Wailing away like a 21st century version of the Fugs, the contemporary alterna-pop consortium known as Urayoán Noel/Edwin Torres with Los Guapos Planetas performs its counter-hegemonic re-working of the Talking Heads’ song “And She Was” at an open mike in my hometown of Morrisania. The lyrics re-imagine 20th century philosopher, organic intellectual, and Maxist journalist […]
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This week is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War. There’s an exhaustive summary of the costs of the war by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies here. It’s kind of overwhelming, but worth scrolling through just to add context and clarity. Back in March 2003, I watched the “Shock and […]
Read moreSupreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Elana Kagan arrives on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington.(Win McNamee, Pool/AP Photo) Jan. 25, 2013 Two days before Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor swore in returning Vice President Joe Biden, she was paying a visit to El Barrio, or at least El Museo del Barrio, a […]
Read moreWhen you think of 75-year-old Eddie Palmieri, legendary Nuyorican pianist, you think about his classic salsa hits like “Azúcar,” “Justicia,” or “La Malanga.” Or maybe you remember his extensive series of Latin jazz recordings post-1980. But the enigmatic truth about Palmieri is that while he will deny being a salsero or a jazz musician, he is […]
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