Puerto Ricans in New York Face Persistent Struggles
Leave your thoughtsPuerto Rican leaders have made lots of news this year from Sonia Sotomayor’s rise to the Supreme Court,…
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Marshall Urges All Queens Residents To Be Counted In 2010 Census
Leave your thoughtsWith an eye toward getting the census count in Queens next year as accurate as possible, Borough President Helen…
STAR OF QUEENS: Sagrario Mendez, Volunteer, Make the Road New York, Rego Park
Leave your thoughtsCOMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Sagrario Mendez volunteers with the organization Make the Road New York (MRNY) located in Corona, which gives…
Policía defiende presencia en escuelas
Leave your thoughtsNUEVA YORK Tras una protesta de estudiantes, padres, profesores y activistas, el Departamento de Policía (NYPD) justificó ayer…
Undocumented Workers Seek Unpaid Wages
Leave your thoughtsA promise of work in exchange for payment is one of the oldest types of contracts in the world…
First Stop, Rikers. Next Stop, Colombia?
Leave your thoughtsFollowing a wave of activism protesting interrogations of immigrant detainees at Rikers Island, the city Department of Correction has implemented…
Former Employees Jostlin’ Jocelyne Wildenstein for Penny-ante Wages
Leave your thoughtsMe-ee-ow! Millionaire socialite Jocelyne Wildenstein, nicknamed the cat woman because of her serial plastic surgery, stiffed four laborers who…