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On This Day in History February 3, 1964: A one day boycott by Black and Puerto Rican public school students takes place in New York City. Organized by Bayard Rustin, the boycott centered along Black and Puerto Rican areas and in total almost 45% of the public school body were absent. What were these students protesting?
The students were against the racial imbalance in their schools due to the Jim Crow racial views of the era. While the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case ruled school segregation unconstitutional, many NYC's public schools remained seperate and unequal. 69 years later there are still many schools that suffer from the same racial imbalance in certain neighborhoods.
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june 5 1970
liberación o muerte young lords party
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Figured I should do one of these but did not have the heart to take this image off my blog. Whatever
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What a great dinner the other night with the legend himself @johngungierivera he has been part of our NuyoRican history since forever here in NYC. but I also learned of so many other accomplishments he has achieved, and I am truly impressed. His story will be told. Even with all he has done when we spoke about his son Christian, I saw the pain and hurt he will forever carry. It is that that has driven a huge passion to find a cure. I hugged my son so tight when i got home because you never know how tomorrow will unfold. I ask everyone to please go follow @cristianriverafoundation, get involved in any way, and make a donation , it could help save one of these kids. John, thank you for the friendship and support. We truly appreciate you. . . #prflagsup #cristianriverafoundation #puertoricanflagsup #boricua #nuyorican #PRSeLevanta https://www.instagram.com/p/CplCOtru2Ut/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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"The Sidewalk of High Art" by Miguel Algarín, introduction to Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
"Lifting the details of the terrain into the poem reveals the self and shows how the land explains the self to the poet. ... Here the politics of land and people are one, as the poet reinvents the self through the history of the terrain. ... The land is concrete information that feeds the body and the soul and reveals the future." p. 12
"...the great commitment that the poets at the Cafe have made to writing the verse on the page and then lifting off the page into performing action..." p. 19
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This time around I want to focus on an idea that became more sentient as we continued to read and watch these documentaries of history shared with mambo.
What became a passing focus that was intended to receive idle time mentioning is now at the forefront of my thoughts because of how influential it is to the rest of the genre within Latin music. What's so cool is how recognizable similar ideas of expression by necessity and congregation lead to cultural evolution through time, and that was within the world of dance. See, as somebody who would consider dance a large aspect of his life, I learned transitively through an early age both the importance of keeping a rhythm and the transformative power of music.
Powerful movements and a confident fluidity could both capture an audience and send the dancers to another space amongst their peers while harmonizing with live instrumentation in a way that has since evolved but can easily be traced back to the heart of our roots. While it is the beauty of blended cultures from Africa and Cuba that are the most obvious representations of mambo's original forms, it was the ingenuity of releasing the tempo over time that lead to the genre becoming as prolific as it was. The irony is not lost on me that it was a Nuyorican and a large part of the cultural transition between the community was adapted by the African Americans and the local Jewish & Italian communities freely participating in the evolution of a new tempo together.
While the world may have experienced Bad Bunny's Después de la Playa at the end of the first week of Coachella, the song itself represents very clear connections to the roots BB pays homage to in their opening on Latin music. What do I mean? Well, it's kind of like getting a multi-course meal so I'll break it down into a few categories.
In no particular order we'll start with the savory part, those drums.
- that tamablle, there's something about the evolution of traditionally African sounds translated through Cuban culture and then sped up capturing the New York essence and the spirit of a Latin people both from the heart of Cuba translating their sound into a New York atmosphere and the Puerto Ricans of The Bronx (and Brooklyn) that contributed to the essence the genre is known for today and its eventual translation into hip-hop (and beyond).
There's something about a good drum beat alongside the clave that keep us moving. While I could attempt to explain it using sociocultural terms and psychology buzzwords I'd be doing the experience a disservice. The essence of salsa, and mambo (as well as guaguachero, cha cha, and any of the contemporaries) is the essence, the spirit. That is held up by the drums, it is no secret that they are the heart of many genres, but to be in syncopation with the drum is to be in a different level of rhythmic understanding.
That's a whole lot of savory though, let's get to the sweet part, those horns.
Man, the influence of jazz on the latin people (and vice versa) is something else. Once the cultural Mecca became the rhythm Mecca it was all over. Having the horns not only getting their own time to shine but also acting as a percussive link between the dancers and the drummers? Truly something special to experience.
Rounding everything out I want to focus on the seasoning of this rhythmic dish, because without this anything you have is going to be bland.
It may seem funny to speak about it in this way, but much like how you may cook at home, dance and rhythm is expressed on an incredibly personal level. While we could wax poetic on a Tale of Two Titos all day I will instead keep it brief and make a suggestion on how to listen to their music.
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Not Guilty is Amatan Noor’s unapologetic #poetic endeavor for #deliverance. Narratives of legacy, love, solitude, grief and displacement pulsate between origin stories and conjurings that revolt against despair. Trekking through cosmic intergenerational trauma and volatilities of land, Noor declares a reclamation of the body and the self. Poems spring from post-partition East Bengal, to a New Jersey Criminal Courthouse, to cascading cities across Europe and the Middle East where Noor collects soulful mementos and lessons on perseverance. This debut collection embraces one’s inner turmoil while birthing stanzas as balms of convalescence A striking tale of #survivorship, #migration, heartbreaks and joy with grit at its core. Not Guilty is a tenacious continuation of the self, past tragedies of catastrophic scope in unfamiliar terrains.
Amatan is a Bangladeshi writer Based in Brooklyn, NY. She migrated to the United States in 2005 and spent her adolescence in New Jersey. Her poetry appears in DIALOGIST, Thimble, No, Dear and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for a pushcart prize. Amatan attended Rutgers University where she earned a dual Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology and Sociology. She began her writing career partaking in poetry slams. Amatan has won poetry slams at the Brooklyn Poetry Slam and Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Over the course of her writing career, her work has evolved to explore themes of dislocation, physical and generational trauma, diaspora, Islam and the multitudes pertaining to womanhood. Amatan lives in Clinton Hill and is in an ongoing love affair with Fort Greene Park. Not Guilty is her debut collection.
PRAISE FOR Not Guilty by Amatan Noor
Amatan Noor‘s debut chapbook Not Guilty is a revelatory exploration of what it means to grapple with legacy. Those of pain, those of love, those of dislocation and return. What do we make with the fragments we inherit, with the stories we are left with? Noor is steadfast in her scrutiny of different histories, those of land and people alike. “We know to burn the abuse into the backs of our skulls,” she writes and, later: “I answer all the questions asked of me.” But the answering itself is an act of reclamation, a rewriting herself into narratives of surveillance and erasure. With humor, with heart, with a steady gaze, Noor gives us alternate narratives. They are a reprieve and a benediction all at once.
–Hala Alyan, author of The Arsonist’s City and The Twenty Ninth Year
These poems feature a fearless blues and melodic lattice of memoir. Scenes that oscillate between mind and gut through Noor’s gift for image and insight. Poems’ virtuosic further in that this music comes while she maintains a revolutionary altitude for analysis of political economy. This collection is right on epochal time; scaffolding for the humanity to come.
–Tongo Eisen-Martin, Poet Laureate of San Francisco
I have learned/it is better to observe, writes Amatan Noor, and it is this poet’s keen and omnipresent observations that propel these poems from mere arrangements of words, into vivid and dynamic portraits. I love this poet’s insistence on affixing everyday encounters beside large and sweeping metaphysical questions. Noor refuses to leave anything out or behind—I am grateful for this poet’s ferocity and generosity.
-Tarfia Faizullah, author of Seam and Registers of Illuminated Villages
Amatan Noor pens a Brown girl’s anthem, a survivor’s song, a lesson on womanhood and loneliness and so much more. Not Guilty gives us a glimpse into a Bangladeshi woman’s existence in America. Noor is choosing liberation over others’ expectations. Her writing is packed with imagery and genuine emotion cautioning readers at turns. This is a calling out of perpetrators of violence and a calling in of self. Noor’s debut offers a mourning of loved ones, love lost and past iterations of self while calling each to account for their actions.
-Roya Marsh, author of DayliGht
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Today Live! Omar Navarro, the baddest of the bad guys, one of the greatest performances, from one of the greatest shows, Ozark… actually, Felix Solis, who plays him… who is the sweetest of the sweet, and one of the greatest actors I've ever witnessed on stage and on screen.
How excited am I? I LOVE this man. Felix, a Nuyorican, is an actors actor, an evolved thinker, an advanced doer, and a stellar, entertaining human. He's one of a kind.
Some years ago, thanks to Candy Clark, I was treated to a night of theatre I'll not forget. From the moment the Pulitzer Prize-winning, The Cost of Living, began, with Felix's unforgettable monologue, delivered directly to me (it was, wasn't it - how you know how effective Felix is, everyone in the theatre felt the same way)... I was forever changed. It was one of those kinds of experiences. He is one of those kinds of actors. I never, not for one second caught him acting. The entire play, with its miraculous cast of four, two wheelchair-bound, was life-changing and affirming. We waited at the stage door like schoolgirls to have a moment, and it took barely a moment for me to track Felix down here on The Facebook as soon as I got home to invite him to sit down in conversation with me... what a Game Changers that was... and he came to the living room and performed that very monologue for Women Who Write. STELLAR!
From Ozark to Seal Team, Felix's regular series work also includes Ten Days in the Valley, Hawaii Five-O, The Family, Colony, The Good Wife, The Following, Made in Jersey, NYC 22, and Law & Order, with guest appearances on Mindhunter, Nurse Jackie, Criminal Minds, and The Sopranos, History of Them, and most recently, The Rookie, The Rookie: Feds, and City on Fire, to name but some. His film work includes Man on a Ledge, The Forgotten, and most recently, Allswell.
Whatever Felix does, I look forward to it all––almost as much as having this additional opportunity to share his journey, his thoughts, and his beautiful heart. He’s become a cherished friend. What a blessing.
Felix Solis Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson
Wed, June 7th, 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET
Streaming Live on The Facebook
Daily by Toni Vincent & @peter_and_paul_ Cartoons
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My NYC Bucket List
OK. So this August will be my 8th anniversary living on the East Coast in the U.S. During that time, a lot has happened (to say the least). But it occurred to me that despite all the life changes, growing pains, and never-saw-coming absurdities that is my existence, I've managed to do some pretty cool things since I've moved to the tri-state area.
So with that revelation, a part of me felt the need to write down all the things I've done that might fall in the "tourist-y" category over the past 7.5 years. Which then led to me thinking about all of the tourist-y things I've yet to do.
And here we are.
Below is a list of 80 (so far) things I've either done or hope to do while living on the East Coast of the U.S. You'll notice that I don't have some popular things on the list like "visit the Top of the Rock" or "visit the top of the Empire State Building." That's because I don't care for heights that much, so that's not something I would ever want to do. With that said, if my NYC Bucket List inspires you and you want to add more vertical activities to your own list, I say go for it!
Before we dive in, please keep in mind that I'm an arts & culture geek and lifelong literature & history nerd. So if most of this seems boring to you, well ... I guess I'm just a really boring person.
Now without further ado ...
Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge ✅
Visit Chinatown and the Lower East Side ✅
Watch the NYC Pride parade during Pride weekend ✅
Eat at Sylvia's in Harlem
Drive across the George Washington Bridge ✅
Enjoy a show at Lincoln Center
Walk around Central Park ✅
Visit the Flatiron Building (outside or inside) ✅
Eat a slice at a pizzeria ✅
See a play during Shakespeare in the Park
Go on a walking tour of Greenwich Village ✅
Visit the Coney Island boardwalk ✅
Enjoy a stand-up show at a comedy club
Eat at a hot dog cart ✅
Hike in the woods at the New York Botanical Garden
Do a walking tour of Harlem ✅
See a movie at the Alamo Drafthouse ✅
Try an egg cream ✅
Enjoy a drag performance ✅
Visit that famous site-seeing spot in Dumbo near the Manhattan Bridge ✅
Take a tour of Grand Central Station
Enjoy a Broadway play ✅
Go to a NBA Knicks or Nets game
Eat at Sardi's
Drive across the Verrazano Bridge ✅
See an improv show at UCB (currently closed, but it's under new management so it may reopen soon) ✅
Visit the Statue of Liberty
Walk along 5th Avenue at Christmas time to see the department store windows ✅
Eat and people watch at Caffe Reggio ✅
Attend an art gallery opening ✅
See a show at Radio City Music Hall
Take the Staten Island Ferry
Be a part of a studio audience (ex: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Daily Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, etc.)
Go thrift shopping or vinyl records shopping in the East Village ✅
Eat at Carnegie Deli or Katz's Deli (the former is now closed though) ✅ Carnegie only
Visit the Guggenheim, the Met, the Whitney or the MoCA ✅ Guggenheim only
Attend a performance of the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theater, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and/or the Dance Theatre of Harlem
Grab a drink at the Blue Bar at the Algonquin Hotel ✅
Visit the Bronx Zoo
Eat a black and white cookie ✅
Enjoy an Off-Broadway play ✅
Read a book in Bryant Park in the summer
Take a dance class at Steps on Broadway ✅
Watch the ice skaters at Rockefeller Center or Wollman Rink in Central Park (and go ice skating if you can) ✅ Watching only
Visit Little Italy in the Bronx
Go to a NHL Rangers or Islanders game
See a show at the Beacon Theatre ✅
Visit Tiffany's (and buy something small if you can afford it)
Enjoy High Tea at the Plaza
Attend the AfroPunk music festival ✅
Buy a book or two at the Strand ✅
Take a tour of the Apollo Theater
Ride in a NYC yellow taxi ✅
See a concert or show at Madison Square Garden ✅
Eat at Junior's after a Broadway show ✅
Attend a lecture or talk at the 92nd Street Y ✅
Visit the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Read or write in the Rose Reading Room at the New York Public Library's main branch ✅
See a movie at the Roxy Cinema ✅
Enjoy a drink at the bar in the Hotel Chelsea
Get a playbill signed at the stage door after a play ✅
Go to a late night jazz concert at the Blue Note
Visit Washington Square Park ✅
Attend an event on the Columbia University or NYU campus ✅ Both Columbia and NYU
Grab a sweet at Magnolia Bakery
Buy a book or two at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn ✅
See a concert or show at Carnegie Hall
Go to a MLB Mets or Yankees game
Have a drink at the historic Stonewall Inn ✅
Visit Prospect Park
Attend a film screening at the Tribeca Film Festival ✅
Buy a book or two at the McNally Jackson flagship store in Soho ✅
Dine at the Algonquin Hotel ✅
Go to a late night jazz concert or show at Birdland
See a play at the historic Cherry Lane Theatre
Enjoy a fancy milkshake at Black Tap
Visit the main branch of the Brooklyn Library ✅
Grab a bite or a drink at the White Horse Tavern ✅
See a burlesque show at the House of Yes
Visit the Albertine Bookstore on the Upper East Side
Take the ferry from New Jersey (Hoboken) to NYC
Believe it or not, I was hoping to come up with 100 items for the list, but I've run out of things to add. If anyone has any other ideas they'd like to suggest to help me get closer to 100, I'm all ears.
You'll probably notice that I have very little on the list for the outer boroughs, so I'd be especially interested in suggestions for Queens, Staten Island, BK or BX.
Oh, and I should also mention that I'm not really interested in visiting the High Line or anything happening at the Piers. They're just not my thing.
Of course, this list is for inspiration and gratitude purposes only. It's not meant to make me or anyone feel less than. I'm simply capturing what I've done so I can look at it when I'm feeling sorry for myself in the future about how poor I am.
But it's also a lovely reminder of what else I have left to check out when money and time are on my side. ☺️
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DARKS’ RESEARCH, RESOURCES, & HISTORICAL CONTEXT
VIDEO SOURCES
West Side Story (1961)
RACE – THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Created
TEXT RESOURCES
Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York
Brooklyn Rumble
My Climb to the Top of the Bottom
The Shook-up Generation
FICTIONAL TEXTS
West Side Story - Irving Shulman ( take it with a grain of salt. I dislike most of this adaptation for its unfeeling nature and missing the point of the story.)
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
The Warriors - Sol Yurick
HEALTHCARE
Changes in childbirth in the United States: 1750–1950
Eugenics and Unethical Clinical Trials on Puerto Rican Women
Medicare and Medicaid Act (1965)
The Past Victim, the Future Abuser
Childhood abuse, household dysfunction, and the risk of attempted suicide throughout the life span: findings from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
Victims' barriers to discussing domestic violence in clinical consultations: a qualitative enquiry
Violence and substance use among female partners of men in treatment for intimate-partner violence
The occurrence of female-to-male partner violence among male intimate partner violence offenders mandated to treatment: a brief research report
IF THEY GROW UP: EXPLORING THE NEIGHBORHOOD CONTEXT OF ADOLESCENT AND YOUNG ADULT SURVIVAL EXPECTATIONS
Health and Urban Development
WOMEN’S RIGHTS/ HISTORY
Women in the 1950s
NEW YORK HISTORY
Hoovervilles in Central Park
The Battle of San Juan Hill: West Side Story and the Demolition.
Remembering the Ramifications of Robert Moses's Lincoln Square Renewal Project
Lincoln Square Renewal Project (New York, 1955-1969) A case of culture vs. community.
Robert Moses and the Demolition of San Juan Hill
How Lincoln Center Was Built (It Wasn’t Pretty)
The Exploding Metropolis: The Enduring Slums
Business: Tenements (1934)
The Many Lives of San Juan Hill
Uncovering the Stories of San Juan Hill
The Alien Registration Act of 1940
Becoming "Nuyorican": The History of Puerto Rican Migration to NYC
West Side Story: The Murder That Shocked New York
New Yorkers Without a Voice: A Tragedy of Urban Renewal
SOCIAL/CULTURAL
My Very Personal Taste of Racism Abroad
Why West Side Story Leaves Out African Americans
Youth gangs, Self-expression, and Conversations About Interracial Tension in Postwar New York City, 1945-65
Demolition of the Lower Hill District, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 1956
Sorry, But the Irish Were Always ‘White’ (and So Were Italians, Jews and So On)
During World War II, the U.S. Saw Italian-Americans as a Threat to Homeland Security
Proclamation 2527 and the Internment of Italian Americans
THE ITALIAN 'INTERNMENT' Restrictions Placed on Italian Aliens
Why America Targeted Italian-Americans During World War II
The Italian Internment
Brief Overview of the World War II Enemy Alien Control Program
Secrecy and Injustice: Exposing WWII Italian Internment Camps
The “Privileged Dago”?: Race, Citizenship and Siciliansin the Jim Crow Gulf South, 1870-1924
Linciati: Lynchings of Italians in America
Race and Multiracial Americans in the U.S. Census
White immigrants weren’t always considered white — and acceptable
Afro-Latinos: Shaping the American story
The 1930s: When Irish Catholics Changed America
In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks
Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States
When Irish immigrants were America’s most feared terrorist group
W.E.B. Du Bois, Felix von Luschan, and Racial Reform at the Fin de Siècle
What is Afro-Latin America?
We Weren’t Always White: Race and Ethnicity in Italian/American Literature
Cardella: The Black Italians
Racialization works differently here in Puerto Rico, do not bring your U.S.-centric ideas about race here!’
MISC
Teenage Tragedy Songs
The History Of Banned Rock 'n' Roll
The Birth of Rock and Roll
“Oh Daddio!” How Blackboard Jungle Changed Rock & Roll
A (Brief) History of Music Censorship in America
Nat King Cole Assaulted Onstage By White Supremacists In 1956
José Torres Obituary
Torres' legacy Extends Beyond the Ropes
Sports Sovereignty and Puerto Rico
Lost in design: The absence (mostly) of cultural heritage in Puerto Rican fashion design
PUERTO RICAN WOMEN'S DRESS, 1895-1920: AN ACCULTURATION PROCESS
The Federal Government and Metropolitan Problems
Chapter 11 - Gay and Lesbian Literary Culture in the 1950s
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Today in Stories from Insulted Cities: We honor the life and legacy of Nuyorican poet Miguel Piñero. Piñero was born in Garubo, Puerto Rico in 1946 to a family that soon immigrated to New York City. Growing up, his dad abandoned him, and Piñero joined a gang in order to survive. He wrote his first play, Short Eyes, while he was in jail for robbery. From there, he went on to write many other successful plays, and Short Eyes was nominated for six Tony awards.
His plays dealt the kind of life he knew best: a rough one. His plays featured prostitutes, violent jails, drugs, and crime. His most successful plays include Sideshow, The Sun Always Shines for the Cool, and Playland Blues. He also coedited the 1975 anthology Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings with Miguel Algarín.
Piñero unfortunately died of liver cirrhosis in 1988. He was regarded as the first Puerto Rican to be accepted and successful as a major playwright.
#puerto rico#nuyorican#Miguel pinero#garubo#new york city#short eyes#the sun always shines on cool#nuyorican cafe#playland blues#sideshow#stories from insulted cities#Miguel Algarin#living cities#lit history
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I wore a Puerto Rico face mask and someone asked, “Why do Puerto Rican’s plant their flags all over the place?” I stopped the person and shared a little history about this flag. In 1948, A bill known as Law 53 was passed. It prohibited Puerto Ricans from owning or exhibiting a Puerto Rican flag or speaking about independence from the U.S. Anyone who disobeyed Law 53 or “La 53” would face 10 years in prison. Owning a PR flag was a felony. It would take 9 years before the law was repealed. So yes, mi gente Puertorriqueña aka Puerto Ricans have an extremely loyal & emotional attachment to our flag. It’s been passed down for generations. It’s in our DNA. And while many of us are PROUD to carry and support the American Flag 🇺🇸, and although many of us are PROUD TO BE AMERICAN, we have not lost, nor will we ever lose our Puerto Rican pride 🇵🇷. Boricuas stand defiant, strong & proud. We have established ourselves proudly all over the world. We adopt the culture of the country we reside in without forgetting or abandoning our 🇵🇷 culture & heritage. It’s possible to do both! Que viva Puerto Rico! Picture Number 2: Puerto Rico And American Flag Poster poster canvas can be found at: https://mishopz.com/product/puerto-rico-and-american-flag-poster-poster-canvas/ Puerto Rico flag face mask can be found in the streets and small shops of any New York City neighborhood (all FIVE boroughs) with a concentrated number of Puerto Rican residents. I found mine on Graham Avenue (Avenida de Puerto Rico) in Williamsburg Brooklyn. I’ve seen them on Knickerbocker in Bushwick Brooklyn. I’ve also seen them in the Lower East Side, Spanish Harlem & Washington Heights in Manhattan. In Queens I’ve spotted them on Myrtle Avenue in Ridgewood, and all over Corona, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst & Astoria. #PuertoRico #USA #puertorico🇵🇷 #puertorriqueño #PuertoRican #American #Americano #coqui #nuyorican #patriot #neuyorquino #boricua #boricuapride #boricua #borinquen #borinqueño #MiGente #history #heritage #familia #isladelencanto #glrosario #knowledge #bandera #puertoricanflag #americanflag #love #caribbean #caribe (at Minerva's Famous Cafe) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB8sqegjkB7/?igshid=ypk3oj320zd5
#puertorico#usa#puertorico🇵🇷#puertorriqueño#puertorican#american#americano#coqui#nuyorican#patriot#neuyorquino#boricua#boricuapride#borinquen#borinqueño#migente#history#heritage#familia#isladelencanto#glrosario#knowledge#bandera#puertoricanflag#americanflag#love#caribbean#caribe
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“¡Pa’lante!” (2017)
Hurray for the Riff Raff (2007 - Present)
The exhibit concludes with a musical piece (embedded above), written and performed by Hurray for the Riff Raff, an American folk band spear-headed by Puerto Rican artist Alynda Lee Segarra. “Pa'lante” is the eleventh song on their 2017 album, The Navigator, which was described by Pitchfork as “a folk concept album from a Nuyorican runaway who grew up obsessed with West Side Story before being liberated by Bikini Kill” (Ismael Ruiz). “Pa'lante” may be a piano ballad that doesn’t incorporate the contagious sounds of Puerto Rican bomba or salsa, as some of Riff Raff’s tracks do, but the authenticity of its lyricism, the solemn note of Lee Segarra’s voice, and the use of audio sampling make for a striking anthem for the “colonized” and “dehumanized.”
The desire to “get back home” and “be something,” to “prove [your] worth”, that’s sung about in the first verse—this is often the experience of the Latine within the United States, especially if they left their home behind for a shot at the American Dream. And yet, this is more difficult to achieve as a person of color. As a Puerto Rican, Lee Segarra is quick to comment on the United States’ treatment of Puerto Ricans on and off the “mainland,” and how this has affected her and her people. Despite being citizens of the United States since 1917, Puerto Ricans and their land have been exploited and treated unjustly.
“Colonized, and hypnotized, be something / Sterilized, dehumanized, be something.” By the chorus, Lee Segarra not only refers to Puerto Rico’s colonial history within the United States, but one of the horrors that Puerto Rican women were made to suffer by Americans. After Law 116, which allowed for eugenics-based sterilization, passed in Puerto Rico, U.S. eugenicists targeted poor Puerto Rican women for “sterilization and pharmaceutical experimentation” (Ordover). Overpopulation and poverty were used as both justification and opportunity for the U.S. to treat its citizens as second-class citizens, thousands of women unknowingly sterilized and subjected to the painful side effects of experimental birth control (Ordover).
After the bridge, Riff Raff samples a recording of Pedro Pietri’s “Puerto Rican Obituary,” remembering and re-memorializing the names of Juan, Miguel, Milagros, Olga, and Manuel. Despite the deaths that they, that Puerto Ricans, and that Latines throughout the country are made suffer on a daily basis, “¡Pa'lante!” the anthem cries—"Go on!“. A song of mourning, cultural identity, outrage, and resilience to encourage all Latines to continue marching on.
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ADÁL (1948-2020)
Adál Maldonado was born in Utuado, Puerto Rico in 1948. At 13 years old he would move to Trenton, New Jersey and then the Bronx a few years later. He would remain there until 2010, when he would return to the island until his death in 2020.
Although he would be considered a multidisciplinary artist, he first learned photography. While living in New Jersey, he and his family lived above a portrait studio where the portrait photographer taught Adál how to process film and print photographs. He would carry this on, teaching other photographers too. (Robert Mapplethorpe would be among his ‘students’.)
Adál continued his education in the Bronx, studying photography at the Art Center College of Design in Southern California and then at the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1975, he returned to New York and helped launch Foto Gallery in Soho.
“I was raised to feel that I had many different dimensions that I could choose from.”
Like many Puerto Ricans, Adál felt out of place, caught in between the States and his homeland. This is why his art focused on Puerto Rican identity and its fluidity. The result was a satirical but serious, politically charged body of work that was exhibited internationally at institutes like, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museo del Barrio, and the Musee d’Art Modern de la Ville de Paris.
Among his most well known works is his book, “Portraits of the Puerto Rican Experience” (1984), which features 100 portraits of Puerto Ricans important in American popular culture and history. The New York City public school system used these photographs as a part of their social studies curriculum.
Another famous work is a satirical piece he did with Pedro Pietri (a poet of the Nuyorican Movement who went by Rev. Pedro Pietro for this project). “El Puerto Rican Embassy” was a collaborative project created in 1994 that combined poetry, images, song, and objects - imagining an independent Puerto Rico no longer under the control of the States.
One of Adál’s last projects before his death from cancer, was a series titled “Puerto Ricans Underwater” which was meant to represent the island’s $78 billion debt they were drowning in after Hurricane Maria. Most of these models were strangers he found online who would pose in the artist’s bathtub under water, provoking a sense of helplessness.
Adál Maldonado remains one of the most influential Puerto Rican artists of the 20th century. His greatest accomplishment has been shining a light on Puerto Rican identity as well as political issues specific to this Latin people group.
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