Cuatro Festival
and Three Queens Pictures Now Available to View!
The Cuatro Festival
and Three Queens Festival were both a huge success! A special
Gracias to all of our volunteers and participants! To view
photos of both events, please visit our photo gallery on the
website at: www.praachicago.org
Plus, stay tuned
for upcoming announcements for the grand opening of El Kiosco,
the PRAA online store, where you can purchase CD's, DVD's,
books and posters from previous Cuatro Festival perfomances.
Chicago's
Puerto Rican Story science, paints an inspiring portrait of the
Puerto Rican experience in Chicago. It probes the early years of
migration, settlement, and struggles. It recollects the events and
influences that shaped the political awareness and activism of the
community. And it highlights the many contributions made by generations
of Puerto Ricans who called Chicago home.
Through the use of vintage
photographs and film footage--plus interviews with early migrants,
community leaders, and noted historians--Chicago's Puerto Rican
Story explores the wide range of social themes that include family,
work, housing, and education. Here, are the results of integration
as seen in the employment of Puerto Ricans by local police and fire
departments, as well as the election of Puerto Ricans to local,
state and federal offices. The film also emphasizes the accomplishments
of political activism: social successes such as community organiza-tions,
educational reforms, health centers and clinics, and the creation
of a vigorous cultural-commercial business district known as "Paseo
Boricua."
An educational discussion
guide will be included as a downloadable pdf file for educators
to use along with the film as part of a broader curriculum for students
to understand and study the Puerto Rican and Latino Diaspora in
Chicago and the United States.Chicago's Puerto Rican Story will
serve as an important educational tool. The film addresses various
issues including power, politics, race, health and educational reforms
and spans across multiple disciplines such as history, political
science, sociology and ethnic/Latino studies.
43rd Annual Puerto Rican
Day Parade
FOX WFLD Chicago, IL
CHICAGO
Friday - Evening - September 19, 2008
Opening "Radicals in Black and Brown"
Black Panther / Young Lord Photo Exhibit
De Paul University - Richardson Library
(Register - 773-325-7316)
Sunday - 2 PM - September 21, 2008
Humboldt Park Rally
San Lucas U.C.C. - 2914 W. North Ave., Chicago, IL.
Register - nationalyounglords@yahoo.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.nationalyounglords.com
Celebrate Young Lords * Latinos * Power to the People
Young
Lords 40th / Rally
(Black Panther / Young Lords Photo Exhibit)
The Young Lords will hold a community rally to celebrate 40
Years as a human rights movement for Puerto Rican self determination
and neighborhood empowerment.It will take place Sunday,September
21,2008 in Humboldt Park from 2-4:00 P.M. at San Lucas United
Church of Christ,2914 W. North Ave.,Chicago.
Humboldt Park is another Latino community currently being displaced
by a gentrification program;devised,approved and promoted by
Mayor Richard Daley.Programs like these are the origins of todays
foreclosure problems and are part of Chicago's patronage practices
since 1955.Prime real estate neighborhoods, where Latinos were
dislocated and displaced from in the last 50 years include:
Lincoln Park, Lake View, Old Town,New Town, Uptown,West Town,
Wicker Park, Pilsen and now Humboldt Park.
Along with poetry and musical entertainment,speakers will include:
Kathleen Cleaver,Ward Churchill,Rosa Clemente,Rev.Luis Barrios,Iris
Morales,Omar Lopez,Carlos Flores,Michael James and Young Lords
founder, Jose(Cha-Cha) Jimenez.
De Paul University will also open, the Radicals in Black and
Brown photo exhibit about the Black Panthers and Young Lords
in their John T. Richardson Library on September 19, 2008.It
will be on exhibit until January 12,2009.
the Puerto Rican Bar
Association, Inc., and the Puerto Rican Bar Association Scholarship
Fund, Inc.
The Puerto Rican
Bar Association, Inc. (PRBA) was founded in 1957 by a group of Puerto
Rican and Latino attorneys who began gathering socially to offer
one another both personal and professional support in an era when
it was difficult for attorneys of color to be accepted as members
in established bar associations. The PRBA at that time focused its
efforts on addressing the concerns of a rapidly growing Latino community
and the legal services it required. Today, the PRBA has grown from
a handful of attorney to over 500 members representing the interests
of attorneys, judges, law professors and students of Latino descent
who share a common interest in fostering professional development
in the legal community and addressing issues that are important
to other Latino communities as a whole.
The Puerto Rican
Bar Association is having their scholarship banquet on October 19,
2007 from 6 p.m to 11 p.m at the Union League Club at 65 W. Jackson.
For more information contact Edwin Reyes at 773-450-9584.
Coqui-TV is Chicago's
first and longest airing Bi-lingual Hispanic television program
on cable. Coqui-TV features interviews and music videos segments
and most importantly the positive aspects of the Hispanic communit
in Chicago and around the world!
The Puerto Rican
Arts Alliance is dedicated to preserving Puerto Rican culture by
maintaining our traditions, promoting our arts, providing educational
opportunities in arts programming, and cultivating pride in our
heritage for future generations.
It is the vision of the Puerto Rican Parade Committee to create,
through its various activities, a sense of pride, historical understanding
and greater self-esteem among all citizens of Puerto Rican origin
living in the city of Chicago, or the state of Illinois. We also
wish to share with the general public the beauty of our culture
and thus, create among the general population a better understanding
and respect for all cultures present in the setting that surrounds
us.
Fiestas Puertorriqueñas
June 12-17, 2007 Humboldt Park
Puerto Rican Parade June
16, 2007 Columbus Drive, Grant Park
Puerto Rican Parade Committee
of Chicago
1237 N California Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
773-292-1414 www.prparadechicago.com
All New
ChicagoLand Boricua Website. If You're Boricua In The ChicagoLand
Area We want To Know All The Boricua in Chicago Send Your Information
And A Picture If You Can. Your Information Is Going To Be In
Are Coming Soon Chicago Boricua List .
If You Own A Business let Us Know By Sending The Information
To Us. And If You Have Website For Your Business We Can Add
a Link To Your Website . And IF You Have A Business And No Website
We Can Help
Puerto Rican Arts
Alliance
1440 North Sacramento Ave.
Chicago, IL. 60622
(773) 342-8865 carhernandez@praachicago.org
Ruiz
Belvis Cultural Center evolves from a project developed by Association
House of Chicago and community activists of the Latin American
Defense Organization (LADO) which supported the economic and
democratic rights of the Puerto Rican and Latino community of
Chicago in the areas of citizenship; cultural identity; public
education; health, safety and security; housing; and economic
opportunity.
Leo Negron is an Artist from Chicago's Puerto Rican community
who has experimented with oils, silkscreens, acrylics and
ceramics. He began using coconuts as his media and now also
uses acrylic on canvass. Leo currently uses his culture as
his inspiration to create his pieces.
Puerto
Rican Chamber of Commerce of Illinois
The mission of the Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce of Illinois
is to develop, assist, and promote Hispanic business interests,
and other businesses in the State of Illinois.
Aspira
Inc. of Illinois is a Puerto Rican not-for profit organization
commited to the self-determination of Latinos through education,
leadership development and cultural awareness.
