Wielding a Camera, Activist Fights Police Misconduct
A run-in with police a decade ago started the activist Dennis Flores on his path to filming and monitoring police misconduct — and teaching others to do the same, reported El Diario La Prensa.
A run-in with police a decade ago started the activist Dennis Flores on his path to filming and monitoring police misconduct — and teaching others to do the same, reported El Diario La Prensa.
With the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday, El Diario has guides to the parade route and songs to sing along the way, as well as a sobering assessment of the state of Puerto Rican youth in the city. El Diario also took a moment to crow over a Daily News snafu.
New York City’s Puerto Rican Day Parade on June 10 will focus on higher education and getting out the vote in the Boricua community. But while organizers of New York City’s Puerto Rican Day celebrations have honed their messages, organizers of Long Island’s parade have been scrambling just to hold the event.
While some Latino restaurant owners have struggled to make ends meet, others have created businesses that have thrived over decades in New York City. El Diario asked six of these neighborhood institutions for their “recipe for success.”
El Diario La Prensa explored the “Jewyorican” phenomenon of half Jewish, half Puerto Rican New Yorkers.
Photos of troopers from the New Jersey State Police posing by a cache of drugs, with one officer waving the Puerto Rican flag, have upset the Puerto Rican community and prompted an investigation, El Diario La Prensa reported last week.