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It’s hard to believe that nearly half a century has passed since DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy Campbell threw a “back to school jam” in the South Bronx rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue back in 1973, a party that marked the birth of hip hop. The founding members of the forthcoming Bronx’s Universal Hip Hop Museum...
Fans of supernatural, other worldly, magical and mysterious stories have had their fair share of TV shows to choose from in the past: from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Charmed to Sabrina the Teenage Witch and even Bewitched. But rarely do those stories star a Hispanic or African American witch in the lead role. And never has one of...
Captain Marvel, the first female-led and female-directed feature film from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, surpassed its lofty projections at the box office on opening weekend, pulling in $455 million worldwide, making it the sixth-highest opening of all time. (Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War holds court in the number one spot.) North America saw $153 million in ticket sales; only Black...
Humanitarian aid went up in flames back in February during a standoff between Maduro forces who were attempting to block the aid from entering the country and anti-Maduro protestors. Based on newly acquired video footage from the conflagration, the Venezuelan aid burned when an anti-Maduro protestor hurled a Molotov cocktail from the crowd, refuting what had until now been...
It’s a New York fairy tale: A Dominican-American boy from Washington Heights who sits on the panel of Shark Tank proposes marriage to a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx who sits on the panel of her show World of Dance. We’re of course talking about former New York Yankees shortstop and third baseman Alex Rodriguez and world-famous dancer-actress-singer-producer...
Thomas Keller, the renowned chef behind the Michelin star-earning, fine dining Napa Valley establishment The French Laundry launched his latest venture on the West Coast right before the new year: La Calenda, helmed by the young Oaxacan-born Chef de Cuisine Kaelin Ulrich Trilling. https://www.instagram.com/p/BsRWz8WlQQS/ Restaurateur Keller had no experience with Mexican cuisine, but wanted to round out what he felt the...
Like any case in which its ultimately one person’s word against another’s, there’s no real way of knowing if the allegations of sexual molestation are true. Michael Jackson’s family has called HBO’s two-part documentary Leaving Neverland a “public lynching” and has characterized accusers James Safechuck and Wade Robson as proven liars whose allegations have already been dealt with by...
Last week, the entire women’s national soccer team filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation for “institutionalized gender discrimination.” The 28 plaintiffs, who include veteran stars like Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan, allege that their employer the USSF has knowingly and deliberately paid the team less money than they deserve for their work and merits as a championship...
Maritza Soto, a Chilean-born astronomer, is not only making headlines but also making history for discovering not one, not two, but THREE planets. And as if that isn’t impressive enough, she accomplished all of this by the age of 28. That’s right, two years before her 30th birthday and she has already discovered more than most astronomers can hope...
Update: Since the publishing of this piece, Natalie Montelongo has taken a new job as Campaign Director for presidential hopeful, Julian Castro. Leaders that break barriers are few and far between — a fact that isn’t lost on the indomitable Natalie Montelongo, who pursues work that emboldens nuestra comunidad. As national campaign strategist for immigrant rights at the American Civil Liberties...
Yet another group of researchers has concluded that plastic has infiltrated the deepest, darkest depths of the sea. Last week, a crew of marine biologists confirmed that they had found irrefutable evidence of plastic in every single deep-sea creature they had collected in the Mariana Trench, the lowest known point on the earth’s crust. The problem with this is...
In the spirit of Women's History Month, let us hit you with a question: ever wish you could go back in time and discover all of the extraordinary achievements women made throughout HERstory? Well, you sort of can. A few years ago, The SPARK Movement, a non-profit by and for girls ages 13-22, partnered with Google to create a...