It´s hard to imagine that too many South Bronx neighborhoods are staging cultural events that look and sound like BlakTino, a series of performances that interweave the cultures of African-Americans, Latinos and gay New Yorkers.
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Hunts Point Celebrates the Folked and the BAAD
Posted on 19 October 2009.
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An Unwitting Pet Sanctuary
Posted on 16 October 2009.
by Mamta Badkar You know times are tough when people don´t have enough money to feed their hamsters. Last winter, 11 of the cute, furry rodents were left in a box outside the Petland Discount store on Broadway, the main thoroughfare in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx. Some froze to death before the employees […]
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Visions of Poverty
Posted on 16 October 2009.
I have stood inside tin shanties in South Africa, but when I picture poverty, I see Justina Turull’s apartment in the Bronx.
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