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The Story of Someone-We-Love: Part II
“Why didn’t you take me with you? Why didn’t you come back sooner?” Someone-We-Love remembers these questions perfectly. Her daughter, Maria, was searching for an explanation. At 14, she couldn’t quite understand why…
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The Story of Someone-We-Love: Part I
The recent hypocrisy of the Obama Administration is infuriating. Yes, the president cried during his much-needed gun-control Executive Order speech, but the same day his administration released a letter that justified the deportation…
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Happy birthday, Mozart — and Jerry Kern [by DL]
Spring 68 at Columbia was the season of the strike,The occupation of the buildings (Low, Hamilton, AveryMathematics, and Fayerwether where a righteousMininster married a young couple), and Mitch and IWent to the West End…
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Place, Origin, and Stalks of Corn [by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo]
Keeping with this week’s theme of immigration and community in mind, I asked Marcelo Hernandez Castillo to chime in on his own experience. What follows is his essay about place, origin, and stalks of…
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Monday Comic by Nin Andrews
I've been having fun lately making love comics out of Shakespeare's comics. This week I am playing with Sonnet 25, and of course, Emily Dickinson. — Nin Andrews
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Recuerdo (Remembrance), Resistencia (Resistance), Recreación (Reinvention)[by Javier Zamora]
These week’s posts will try to keep in mind Francisco X. Alarcón’s commitment to the Latin@ community. As many have written since his passing, here is a poet who shows us what can be…
