Echoing the Puerto Rican youth group’s 1969 "Garbage Offensive," JVP urged NYC officials to cut ties with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
A report by Daniel José Older for The New York Times. Fifty years ago, the Young Lords evolved from a street gang to a political force. A report by Daniel José Older for The New York Times. Hiram Maristany laughs when I call to ask him about the famous Garbage Offensive. “Like so many things with the Young Lords, you got…
“You Belong Here” opened last month at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta. The work on view, writes Rivas, seeks to “take a broader perspective on the Latinx archive across time” in ways that are “relevant to the processes of visibility and belonging that are not fixed but ever evolving.”1 The show brings together artists from distinct communities and artistic traditions while not aspiring toward definitiveness or full “arrival.” Ar