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Where do the new New Yorkers come from? Everywhere. Large numbers of immigrants now arrive not just from such traditional countries of origin as Russia, Ireland and the Dominican Republic but also from Nigeria, Bangladesh and Egypt. To be Hispanic in New York once meant you were Puerto Rican. Not now. In 1990 there were only 62,000 Mexicans in the city; by 2000 there were an estimated...
Just one year ago, Benjamin Bratt was playing an accessory on Julia Roberts' red-carpet tour. Now he's commanding his own spotlight with a revelatory performance in Pinero. In this sordid, vibrant and true story, Bratt stars as Miguel Pinero, the Puerto Rican playwright, unrehabilitated ex-con, junkie and cautionary figure. In 1988, 14 years after founding Manhattan's Nuyorican Poets Cafe and gathering acclaim for his Tony-nominated play Short Eyes, Pinero died of cirrhosis...
More recently, Sharpton served a 90-day federal prison sentence for trespassing onto a Navy bombing range to protest the Navy’s frequent bombing drills on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. He was released in August, at which time he seriously considered running for the presidency, saying, “I am prepared to do nationally what I have done locally, which is to help those who need help...
...Robinson spent 10 mostly triumphant years with the Dodgers, but baseball racism endured. Four years after Rickey left the Brooklyn organization, the black Puerto Rican, Roberto Clemente, showed great promise in the Dodger farm system. "We're not bringing him up," decreed Walter O'Malley, Rickey's successor. "We have enough colored boys already." Pittsburgh plucked Clemente, and the Hall-of-Famer slammed out 3,000 hits over an 18-year career...
...causes tension on the "Family" staff. At times he flatly refuses to perform a script that does not conform to his conception of the role. An example was last season's episode about Archie's being trapped in a stalled elevator with a middle-class black and a Puerto Rican girl about to give birth to a baby. It was used only after Lear overrode O'Connor's objections that it "wouldn't work." (Such difficulties with O'Connor made the renegotiation of his contract last fall "a bloodbath," according to one Tandem source...