A giant of letters, the extraordinary storyteller, Guadeloupean Maryse Condé is now in the ancestral plane. So honored to have published Discovering Celia Cruz, one of her last writings, in Daughters of Latin America. If you haven’t read her work, do. 🕊️✊🏾 theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

We Want to Be Free (2024), ceramic, glass beads, plastic beads, nylon fringe, tin jingles, nylon thread, canvas, Glimpse into Native American artist, Jeffrey Gibson’s Historic US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. ✊🏾 hyperallergic.com/904155/sneak-p…

I was in college—Rutgers— when we protested the school’s investments in South Africa & the response from college presidents was similar. Kids: don’t let up. Apartheid is inhumane. Ask me, I was born a colonial subject in the oldest US colony, Puerto Rico. newsbreakapp.com/n/0sZYT29g?pd=…

Thank you @JPryorRamirez for a brilliant, thoughtful and clear understanding of what I was attempting to do with Daughters. 🙏🏾

“Morrison curated The Black Book to challenge master narratives of the history & culture of Black people in the U.S. In the same way, you curated a tome that catalogs the vast experiences & stories of daughters of Latin America to challenge conventional notions of Latine women.”

One running gag in Tina Fey’s sitcom 30 Rock (that she created and starred in) is that the word “Puerto Rican” is a slur like the n-word

Imperial French government is killing Native People in one of their Pacific colonies who r tired of their imperialism/occupation since 1898. They r sending military to quell the uprising. The Kanaky People r fighting for their lands. Colonialism must end aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/16…

Still recovering from Wednesday’s power outage as I read that the unelected, undemocratic board that governs Puerto Rico— imposed by a US president that Puerto Ricans did not elect — continues to block solar renewable energy efforts. It’s abusive. solarquarter.com/2024/06/13/pue…

Happy Juneteenth beloveds. Check out this great film Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom (official documentary trailer) from Our Daily Bread's Voices Collection - YouTube pbs.org/video/juneteen…

This is how a U.S. veteran is living in the colony of Puerto Rico. He’s been waiting for access to his home while city gov ignores. No matter what party is in office, he says, he’s being screwed: human drama in Luquillo—“We are asking to access our homes.” primerahora.com/noticias/puert…

A nightmare: At least 20 dead in massive inferno at lithium battery factory after explosions rip through burning plant in South Korea newsbreakapp.com/n/0u1asu8d?pd=…

New Report Recognizes the Harm of Columbia River Dams on Northwest Tribes. Now the Feds need to keep going coz the damage is far and wide. 👋 Puerto Rico propublica.org/article/biden-…

Hurricanes at this time of year—and this strong— are not normal. Blessings for all those on the path of this petite monster caused by fossil fuels. God bless us all: Hurricane Beryl devastates Grenada: ‘In half an hour, Carriacou was flattened’ cnn.com/2024/07/01/wea…

A government that allows a private corp to bury toxic ashes & build streets, housing, malls on top of the same toxic soil is an evil entity. Full stop: Estudio—cenizas de carbón con altos niveles de arsénico hasta en Jardín Botánico de Caguas. Puerto Rico metro.pr/pr/noticias/20…

Kamilla_Cardoso Humanity ♥️ x.com/HealYourDepres…

An honor to b in conversation with a legend, one of my heroes #jamaicakincaid at the WIT Festival. There are tickets left. Miss Kincaid has a glorious new book in collaboration w visual artist Kara Walker: An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children instagram.com/stories/mssand…

nytimes.com/2024/09/25/art… via The New York Times

Earlier this year I wrote in Current Affairs that there were signs support for Puerto Rican sovereignty had grown. The latest polling confirms it: nearly half of Puerto Ricans now favor either sovereignty in free association with the U.S.—or full independence. currentaffairs.org/news/2024/04/t…

“We aren’t against solar panels … We are against the use of our agricultural land to site solar panels and flood our homes with no benefits to us ... They use our land, affect our aquifer, and our electricity rate is higher than ever.” huffpost.com/entry/puerto-r…

Historic and exciting times. The Autumn of Freedom in the oldest colony of the World.