Word: rubens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to marry who I love, and I don't really want to care about race," says Ruben Marinelarena '02. "I really don't care about race," he adds...
This view of Latinos as the "soccer Moms" of 2000 was echoed by the other panelists: Ruben Navarrette Jr. '90, Judy Chapa, Andy Hernandez, and Robert DePosada. Jesus Mena Jr., KSG's director of communications, served as the event's moderator...
...starred in Les Miserables on Broadway, has appeared on the ABC soap General Hospital. The cultural wave Martin is riding--Latin pop--we must admit, is also not an entirely new phenomenon. Salsa, rumba, mambo and other Latin musical forms have made inroads on American pop music--Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, Gloria Estefan, Ritchie Valens, Los Lobos, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Machito, Willie Colon, Tito Puente and many, many others have, for decades now, scored hits, excited crowds and pioneered new sounds. TIME's "discovering" Latin pop would be a bit like Columbus discovering Puerto Rico...
...blacks. The police shooting last month of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Guinean immigrant, has ignited passions. Though the crisis will be over long before the election--replaced, no doubt, by some other New York nightmare--community leaders say they won't forget. "This has unified blacks and Latinos," says Ruben Diaz Jr., a state assemblyman from the Bronx, "and together, they will vote against Giuliani and in droves for Hillary Clinton...
...Ruben was unavailable for comment for thisstory...