Have you checked out “Cholos Try” from MITÚ NETWORK? The network describes it as: Four L.A. cholos cruise the country to experience various cultures and unique lifestyles. Bold, brash, and brutally honest, they’ll share unique perspectives on everything from Alaskan adventures to bounty hunting, ballroom dancing and more. Now, I’m not Mexican-American so I don’t know…
Yes, we can be really funny. My mother, who was from the Dominican Republic, was a riot sometimes with the most slapstick routines. She definitely passed that down to all her children. Hey, if there ever was a time that we needed comedy, today is it.
There is something enlivening, mystical, and hard about slam poetry. The beats, the cadence drives my head to move in unison. It pokes me to shuffle my feet. The poets can spit their words so quickly that I have to strain to keep up. I grew up before Rap Music so I have never developed…
When I was growing up in the Bronx, New York public housing, I didn’t think I was poor. I had a roof over my head and my parents made sure that we had food and clothing. They sacrificed to send us to Catholic Parochial School. You played in the streets because that’s what you did….
This Voices in Our Heads podcast features Zamná Ávila, Assistant Editor at Random Lengths News in San Pedro. It’s the first of two podcasts with the newspaper’s staff, the second one being the paper’s Managing Editor, Terelle Jerricks. The newspaper is published every two weeks for the Harbor Area communities of San Pedro, Rancho Palos…
There is something about listening to these young voices that give us hope. Listen and be proud that there is honesty in the youth and their vision of the present and future.
Denice Frohman at The Pigeon Presents: The Philadelphia Poetry Slam
I came across this TEDx talk from a year and a half ago. It’s relevant in light of the recent debates over the Confederate symbols, Black Lives Matter, and our country’s obsession with selective history. 150 Years to the day following the unconditional Confederate surrender to the Union Army, Freddie Gray was arrested in Baltimore…
