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Aurora Flores-Hostos
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Trained to Kill

I knew something was wrong when the guy at the photo counter told me the negatives from our wedding reception were blank. My smile frowned. My brows burrowed into a growl. “My husband’s a photographer!” I proclaimed more in hope than wishful thinking. “How could this happen?” “I dunno, lady…

Violence

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Trained to Kill
Trained to Kill
Violence

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Touching Up My Roots

Celebrating Boricua Culture in N.Y It was the day before the Puerto Rican day parade, and I needed a new pair of clave sticks. My old ones already had splinters spiking up from the rough patch in their middle where one wooden stick struck the other in a two-bar, five-note…

Puerto Rico

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Touching Up My Roots
Touching Up My Roots
Puerto Rico

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The Architect of Liberation: Eugenio María de Hostos

Boricua Social Philosopher, Educator — Writer — Patriot “Ideals that take days to conceive, mature over centuries of struggles.” wrote Eugenio Maria de Hostos in the late 1800s. Educator, humanist, abolitionist, feminist, philosopher, writer, politician, and above all, an early advocate of self-government for Puerto Rico, Hostos is globally recognized…

Puerto Rico

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The Architect of Liberation: Eugenio María de Hostos
The Architect of Liberation: Eugenio María de Hostos
Puerto Rico

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Spielberg’s ‘Rican Reparations

West Side Story: Resurrecting a Place for Us Reprinted from NYU’s Latinx Project Intervexions As the family translator, I was surprised when Ma, who didn’t go anywhere without me as a go-between, tore into the living room demanding I stop playing that record. Then, pushing past my deer-in-the-headlights stare, she…

Latinos

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Spielberg’s ‘Rican Reparations
Spielberg’s ‘Rican Reparations
Latinos

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Hey Joe, Where you going with that gun in your hand?

Goin’ down to shoot my ol’ lady. Ya know I caught her (W.A.P.) messing ‘round with another man. The Cardi B controversy. The fallout over Cardi B’s top-charting W.A.P. performance over the Grammy Awards stirred a second sanctimonious tsunami of garment-gashing jazzers and Latin music artists exploding with indignation all…

Cardi B

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Hey Joe, Where you going with that gun in your hand?
Hey Joe, Where you going with that gun in your hand?
Cardi B

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Aug 20, 2021

Larry Harlow, salsa music pianist/bandleader and Fania All-Star passes into ancestry.

Facing the music: going home. A founding member of the Fania All-Stars’ supergroup of bad-boy bandleaders, co-producer of the salsa music cult film classic “Our Latin Thing,” storied producer of hundreds of hit recordings and gold albums, and a fierce activist who successfully campaigned the National Academy of Recorded Arts and Sciences (NARAS) to designate…

Music

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Larry Harlow, salsa music pianist/bandleader and Fania All-Star passes into ancestry.
Larry Harlow, salsa music pianist/bandleader and Fania All-Star passes into ancestry.
Music

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Jul 19, 2021

Time

Time always betrays me.

Time

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Time
Time
Time

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Jun 17, 2021

Are We There Yet?

Will “In the Heights” take us there? From “Our Latin Thing” to “In the Heights:” Colorism & Criticism I’ve always said that history repeats itself but in different ways. The recent bruhaha over “In the Heights” has crystalized that adage. Today’s criticisms over the movie’s lack of Afro-Latinos are the antithesis of the strong opinions against the 1972 movie “Our Latin…

Latinx

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Are We There Yet?
Are We There Yet?
Latinx

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Jun 6, 2021

The Wake

Last night I saw the devil: a cockeyed, cone-headed demon his face contorted from the turmoil of the Orishas that he daily dishonors with his vile contempt for humanity. His ubiquitous beats, as impotent as his will for sustained oppression, cry out in shame with every slap of the demon’s…

Poetry

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The Wake
The Wake
Poetry

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May 9, 2021

Silent Knowing

You emerged from the dark well, startled by the lights, looking at the sights of different colored faces touching, pulling, yanking you out of me. For 3 days you played hide & seek, dropping deep into the abyss then hitting your head against the birth canal only to retreat back…

Motherhood

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Silent Knowing
Silent Knowing
Motherhood

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Aurora Flores-Hostos

Aurora Flores-Hostos

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Writer, communications specialist, entertainment & salsa savant, news junkie, and Boricua woman of the world. www.aurora-communications.com

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