Friday, May 23, 2025

Book Report: "The Young Lords," Johanna Fernandez

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Properly considering the monumental force that were the Young Lords (69-71) required the match of a monumental work such as “The Young Lords...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

"Marcantoniana" to Book Form

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“If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live tha...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Birthday Card for Tina Modotti

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  Pure your gentle name, pure your fragile life, bees, shadows, fire, snow, silence and foam, combined with steel and wire and pollen to mak...
Saturday, July 8, 2023

Book Report: "Down These Mean Streets" by Piri Thomas

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  " Down These Mean Streets "  gets you three books for the price of one. The first book is true to its title: a young man's c...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Two Italian American Lions Reborn with Renato Cantore’s “Harlem, Italia”

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Vito Marcantonio and Leonard Covello Reconsidered in Italian-Language Publication Italian Harlem, and its two main prominenti, Leonard Cove...
Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Gil Fagiani in "Italian American Review"

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Introduction to a series of remembrances about poet and Vito Marcantonio Forum co-founder Gil Fagiani , for the current edition of “Italian ...
Saturday, May 1, 2021

Christopher Bell's East Harlem

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  A recent article on the website “Harlem Focus” details how the “real” Little Italy was not actually on the lower East Side, but uptown in...