Chicago's 2017 Puerto Rican Festival - A Photo Essay
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The festival kicked off the celebration of the Puerto Rican culture through the music, food and the parade.
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Oscar López Rivera's Chicago Homecoming - A Photo Essay
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On Thursday, May 18th, 2017, Oscar López Rivera returns to Chicago's Humboldt Park for the first time since he was pardoned by President Obama after serving 35 years out of his 70 year prison sentence as a political prisoner. Oscar López Rivera received a warm welcome from the locals in the neighborhood where he was honored by a march down Divison Street that began at La Casita de Don Pedro and continued down to Luis Munoz Marin where a street sign was unveiled in his honor. The celebration proceeded to continue down to the Humboldt Park Boathouse where a program of speakers addressed the crowd.
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Black Lives Matter: A Boricua Mother's Perspective
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#BlackLivesMatter #BlueLivesMatter #AllLivesMatter
These three hashtags have flooded my social media feeds over this past week. Do any of these hashtags mean more than the other? To be honest, I don’t think so. I think they are all valid and have real meaning behind them. But, with recent incidents the last few years, the focus IS and SHOULD be Black Lives Matter. Hell, nobody was shouting or tagging ‘all lives matter’ and ‘blue lives matter’ until the Black Lives Matter movement began.
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