The ELLA Leadership Institute officially launched last Thursday, May 16, at an empowering event at Barnard College at Columbia University. The LATINAS THINK BIG event was attended by over 200 participants and was live streamed by Google. ELLA Leadership Institute is a professional development center that offers strategic and tailored training, consulting, and mentoring programs [...]
About two days after news that the former director of the Bronx Community Pride Center was charged and arrested for possibly embezzling $338,000, the board of directors of the LGBT non-profit organization today announced the closing of its doors effective June 30th. “The board of directors of the Bronx Community Pride Center (BCPC), the borough’s [...]
I had an incredible opportunity earlier this month to meet and interview a phenomenal group of people who were adopted from Colombia and raised by American parents. Thanks to a Facebook Group they met in New York City during the second weekend in June for a momentous occasion. They decided to have dinner at Bogota [...]
Hola everyone. Last year I posted a blog entry about East WillyB, a Latino webseries about a group of longtime residents in Bushwick, Brooklyn going through the ups and downs of the gentrification of their neighborhood. The amazing talent behind this original effort now needs your help to film a few more episodes in hopes [...]
EMPANADA FOR A DREAM, a new play created and performed by Juan Francisco Villa and directed by Alex Levy, will be showing at The Barrow Group Theatre at 312 West 36th Street (between 8th and 9th Ave) in New York City. The limited 6 show engagement starts off on Saturday, April 21st and runs through [...]
Crime in Puerto Rico has always been a problem. However within the last two decades, the United States territory has seen the highest crime rates ever recorded. Drug trafficking, severe unemployment, and other social issues on the island indicate there may be no end in sight to the increase in troubling crime statistics. Police data [...]
A new study by NeilsenWire finds Latinos, African Americans, and Asians are top smartphone owners. According to NeilsenWire, 31 percent of the U.S. mobile consumers are smartphone users. Of those, 45 percent are Latinos, 45 percent are Asians, and 33 percent are African American versus only 27 percent of mainstream Americans who own smartphones. In [...]
