Joiri Minaya’s Cloaking of the Statue of Christopher Columbus
Miami protesters sprayed trails of red paint on two monuments in Bayfront Park after the May 25,, 2020, murder of George Floyd. On the statue of Christopher Columbus, they…
Read MoreAug 24, 2021 | Counter-Monuments, Monuments and Counter-Monuments
Miami protesters sprayed trails of red paint on two monuments in Bayfront Park after the May 25,, 2020, murder of George Floyd. On the statue of Christopher Columbus, they…
Read MoreApr 15, 2021 | COVID March/April 2021, Spotlight: Eyes on COVID-19
I ended up in a lunch with the Minister of Education. Does it get better than that? If you’re a Dominican middle-class parent in 2021, it doesn’t. The Minister is for sure the one person…
Read MoreApr 30, 2020 | COVID May, Student Views
Tens of thousands of Dominicans are spending their nights demanding carne, or meat, on reggaetón singer Miguel Ángel Valerio Lebrón’s controversial Instagram live stream. Lebrón…
Read MoreDec 4, 2017 | Confronting Waste, Garbage
I never imagined that my job at a leading Dominican resort would be so dirty—at least not at the beginning. I spent my first months as environmental director of…
Read MoreJan 10, 2017 | Book Reviews, Book Talk, Beauty
This book by Harvard Professor Lorgia Garcia-Peña embarks on an ambitious exploration of the limits of Dominican identity seen through the prism of culture, geography and race…
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