Do You Feel at @lprnyc
D’Angelo graces a 6-page spread in the June issue of GQ Magazine
How does it feel now ladies n’ gents that D is back and bringing the sexy?
RUBY:
Savin all my money for a whip like this!
Gypsy Rose! Saw this in real life. Made my heart skip a beat.
Beats, Rhymes & Life, Inc. brings you BART (Bay Area Re-defining Transformation): A compilation of 17 tracks by Bay Area Youth. Dropping May 21st at the Brava Theater in San Francisco.
The music site is under construction (workinonit!) but we have 8 tracks from other albums up. Give them a listen: brl-inc.org/musak
A shirt design dropping May 21st at our Beats, Rhymes & Life, Inc. community showcase, BART (Bay Area Re-defining Transformation), at the Brava Theater in San Francisco.
Our store will be updated soon but take a look around: brl-inc.org/store
Precious Knowledge Airs Tonight on PBS
Precious Knowledge portrays the one of the final years of the highly successful but controversial Mexican American Studies Program at Tucson High School.
The program was a national model of educational success — 93 percent of its enrolled students graduating from high school and 85 percent going on to attend college, bucking a statewide trend that saw only 48 percent of Latino students graduating at all. The program taught Mexican and American history, as well as Central and South American literature and culture.
But the political tide shifted in Arizona in the 2000s. The state passed extremely controversial immigration laws, which some civil libertarians equated to racial profiling. Legislative sessions in the state became heated and rife with recriminations. And when lawmakers turned their attention to Tucson High’s ethnic studies program, it became a lightning rod in the public conversation about race. Opponents of the program launched a campaign to convince the public that ethnic studies teach everything from communism to terrorism to “reverse racism.”
Read more about the film at PBS
Happy Mother’s Day to Hardworking Mexican Moms in the United States
Blanca Alvarez emigrated from Mexico to the United States in 1972 with her husband and a young son, while pregnant with their daughter, Connie.
Connie recounts how seeing her mom work hard and sacrifice for her and her brother while going to school herself has been a big inspiration.
“Watching you go to school with two kids and trying to make ends meet, that was the biggest inspiration for me to finish college. I thought there’s nothing that could stand in my way that didn’t stand in yours more,” says Connie.
A big saludo to all moms celebrating Mother’s Day today, especially to Mexican moms like Blanca Alvarez who made significant sacrifices for their children.
To All Our Moms, Our Mamás: Thanks for Teaching Us How to Fight
We WERE going to do a post about how amazing mothers are, and how their love for us has made us strong and confident Rebeldes, and also wax poetic about mothers.
Then we say this photo and said DONE. This explained it all for us. Our moms taught us how to fight, how to speak out against injustice, and how to never forget where you came from.
To all the mothers out there, Happy Mothers Day!
