Hurricane-battered infrastructure and limited electricity have taken a toll on the tourism-driven economy of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Home to 100,000 Americans, the islands took a hit from both hurricanes Irma and Maria at their peaks within a span of two weeks. William Brangham speaks with U.S. Virgin Islands state senator Janette Millin Young about…
Max Viltz (H. Maxie-Viltz) is the founder and owner of Village Treasures on Broadway in downtown Long Beach. Entering the store is walking into a culture rich environment of World imports with an emphasis on African imports. The shelves, floor, and walls are filled with clothing, jewelry, art, books, masks, statues, and every other conceivable…
Hypervisibilities with Sondra Perry: Interacting Artist and Activist Communities This event, developed by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in dialog with Sondra Perry, brings together the work and voices of activists, artists, cultural critics, and public intellectuals to consider how art and activism are shaping one another as visual materials that are…
Both federal and local authorities have faced criticism for the speed of Puerto Rico recovery efforts. A month after Hurricane Maria, some 80 percent of the island remains without electricity. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with José Sánchez, of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to discuss the problems with the devastated power grid. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/
One month after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, a major new investigation examines the looming question of what will happen to the island’s $74 billion debt as it faces an estimated $95 billion in storm-related damage. We speak with reporters at the Center for Investigative Journalism and In These Times who spent five months digging…
Lynn Parotti is a London-based Bahamian artist and one of the artists at the Museum of Latin American Art (molaa) exhibition in Long Beach, Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago. Her art on display, Thirst II, is an update to her first exploration of water and its cost, Thirst I. Using new data,…
As President Trump threatens to withdraw federal relief workers from Puerto Rico, home to 3.5 million U.S. citizens, residents of the island and their supporters respond with outrage and disbelief. San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz called Trump the “hater-in-chief.” We get response from Congressmember Luis Gutiérrez.
This video was produced for the 2017 Centro CHA 20th Anniversary Nuestra Imagen Awards, September 29, 2017.
The first word that pops into the mind of Anthony Puente is dedicated. I’ve been asking Palacio Magazine interviewees to describe themselves in one word or sentence. I’m not interested in their physical description. I want to know how they see their own character traits. “I think just, as a business owner or as a…
Watch Dolores Huerta share 5 tips for protesting Trump. “Dolores Clara Fernandez was born on April 10, 1930 in Dawson, a small mining town in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Her father Juan Ferånández, a farm worker and miner by trade, was a union activist who ran for political office and won a seat…