Charlie Vázquez

Puerto Ricans are pushing for sustained interconnectivity between stakeholders doing the rebuilding in the islands and the diaspora and its allies advocating for long-term investment from the mainland — and these coordination efforts are largely driven by women’s networks.

Something bothered her.

We’re calling for significant, intentional investment.

Con los muertos no se juega.

These initiatives all demonstrate the combined power of local and global stakeholders who chose to make a difference in the wake of devastation.

A new anthology featuring 21st-century Latino and Latina writers and artists helps imagine a our past, present and future.

“It’s exciting and very timely for us to tell our stories.”

Radiance is dedicated to survivors everywhere, bringing urgent attention to the perils of the marginalized in the wake of the Pulse Orlando Massacre and the challenges of the Black Lives Matter movement.

This inexcusable omission is on par with erasure, which does nothing to address the underlying issues that drove the gunman to action.

People have the right to practice religion, but we need to push harder against extremist fanaticism of all kinds, from all hate-based organizations wishing to do harm.

The Spitboy Rule follows the difficult and courageous journey of a young woman who wasn’t afraid to venture into a mostly white underground scene.

A tribute to the groundbreaking and gender-bending English musician, who died on Sunday at the age of 69 after a brief battle with cancer.

Organizers Nora Comstock, Adriana Domínguez and Marcela Landres speak with Latino Rebels ahead of the annual conference in October in New York City.

Originally published by the author on his page. As the New York City coordinator for Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra, I have the unique fortune of working with authors and poets on both sides of the bilingual Puerto Rican divide. Someone once asked me why I expend so much energy in doing so and […]

Big props to Loisaida Inc. and its steering of the legendary Loisaida Festival, which kicks off this Sunday on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Continuing its commitment to showcase the Lower East Side’s independent and diverse spirit, Loisaida Inc. announced its lineup for the 2015 Loisaida Festival, which will include Chicano Batman, Calma Carmona,Herencia de Plena, and Papote Jimenez y […]

I’d just returned to New York from a trip to Puerto Rico in 2011, when my mother recounted a family tale to me that her paternal grandfather had told her many times when she was little, one that even I had heard throughout the years. (Photo by Bella Vida Letty.) I’d invented characters and worlds […]

Bronx Writers Center director and Rebelde Charlie Vázquez sat with Daniel José Older at a Brooklyn restaurant to discuss —among other things— the spirit world in storytelling, the importance of building community and how the publishing industry needs to restructure its acquisitions and marketing strategies if it wishes to engage more Latino readers.   CV: […]

Los Muros Hablan August 19, 2013 – August 25, 2013 Los Muros Hablan, a street-art traveling initiative arrives at NYC’s own El Barrio and the South Bronx. Beginning on August 19, artists from Latin America and the Caribbean arrive to the island of Manhattan to rescue and transform abandoned spaces in and around el Barrio, New York’s iconic […]

In an effort to support new and emerging artists, the streets around the popular Williamsburg, Brooklyn eatery Cubana Social were transformed this past Saturday into a landscape of flickering images and experimental, multimedia movie reels projected onto buildings, into abandoned alleyways and onto construction sites by Absolut vodka’s Open Canvas project. Open Canvas will move […]

Un poco de poesía para hoy. La sangre es un mar inmenso por Nicolás Guillén La sangre es un mar inmenso que baña todas las playas… Sobre sangre van los hombres, navegando en sus barcazas: reman, que reman, que reman, ¡nunca de remar descansan! Al negro de negra piel la sangre el cuerpo le baña; […]

It is National Poetry Month. Here is the first of many poems we will be sharing this month.   Hoy mujeres y hombres por Xánath Caraza Ciudad con campos de flores rojas. Cada pétalo lleva El nombre de estudiantes que conocí.   Hoy mujeres y hombres. Ya no niños inocentes, Ni adolescentes rebeldes. No hubo tiempo. […]