Two Cents on the Lack of Black Latinos in ‘In the Heights’

The ‘In the Heights’ movie has sparked a controversy within the Latino community due to the lack of black actors. But that was to be expected.
The ‘In the Heights’ movie has sparked a controversy within the Latino community due to the lack of black actors. But that was to be expected.
Hector chats with Alejandro A. Riera, a long-time film critic born in Santurce, Puerto Rico and based in Chicago, about Latino and Latin American movies and diversity in Hollywood
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Hector chats with writer and director Alberto Ferreras about the various facets of Latinoness, Alberto’s childhood as a Spaniard growing up in Venezuela, and photographing the pigeons on his window ledge.
A chat with Ellin Jimmerson, writer and director of ‘The Second Cooler,’ and the first Baptist minister to officiate a same-sex wedding
Marlena Fitzpatrick is a Nuyorican socialite who works in arts, entertainment and media.
At least it isn’t a comet
César Vargas is a writer, filmmaker and activist born in the Dominican Republic but now based in New York.