Temple University’s Beasley School of Law recently hosted the second annual celebration of the Nelson A. Díaz Professorship in Law. The panel event featured a discussion on Latinx perspectives regarding the historical impact of affirmative action and strategies for advancing Latinx access to educational opportunities following the program’s demise.
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Hunter College) presents the authors of
The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and in Times of Crises (Routledge, 2020),Federico Subervi-Vélez, Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto, and Jairo Lugo-Ocando. This event takes place via Zoom TODAY, May 12, 2021, at 6:00pm (EST). [See Zoom link below.]
There are many reasons why Puerto Rico, after more than 122 years, continues to be a colony of the United States. The island’s media system is one of the factors that most contributes to maintaining this relationship of dependence and subjugation. The book The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and in Times of Crises, by Federico Subervi-Vélez, Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto and Jairo Lugo-Ocando documents this reality and exposes it with a variety of sources, including opinions offered by 60 prominent journalists from the Island regarding the challenges faced by the news media, their profession, and journalism educatio
Jennifer Lopez bridges gap between Puerto Rico and Washington
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Singer Jennifer Lopez performs during the 59th presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo
Jennifer Lopez arrives to sing during the 59th presidential inauguration at the U.S. Capitol. Pool Photo by Patrick Semansky/UPI | License Photo
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden (C) looks on as U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris talks to singer Jennifer Lopez during the inauguration ceremony. Pool Photo by Saul Loeb/UPI | License Photo
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (UPI) Jennifer Lopez finished her performance of Woody Guthrie s protest anthem
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New Book ”Caribbean Migrations: The Legacies of Colonialism”
Caribbean Migrations: The Legacies of Colonialism (Bucknell University Press, 2020) by Anke Birkenmaier is a now available. Leah Rosenberg (University of Florida) writes,
“Profoundly interdisciplinary and nearly Pan-Caribbean in scope,
Caribbean Migrations transforms our understanding of how migration has shaped the Caribbean and how Caribbean migration has shaped the United States. The analysis of Caribbean people on the move, asserting political power across digital platforms and through art, explodes the long-held notion that Caribbean migration is the story of flight from poverty to a better life in the United States and breaks down the boundary between Caribbean and American Studies.”