it was a kind of puerto rican town. >> it was home. i mean, i think i would even go futher.i think it meant home, and as we were saying earlier, el museo in its growth, then now, on this corner-- fifth avenue, 104th street-- it's the best of both words. it's really the integration of the highest museum concentration in the world of the best quality of the museums going from the met, the guggenheim, the jewish museum, the design museum, the cooper-hewitt. you know, you have all of those museums lined up, and so now, the city museum of new york, which is our neighbor, and then el museo del barrio has a home from which to really propel our culture. >> hinojosa: but the truth is is that there was a long time, once el museo kind of gets off and running, that el museo del barrio was kind of seen as, you know, as that kind of arts institution up there in spanish harlem. it was not necessarily taken seriously as a true, artisic museum, per se. i mean, what... there was that kind of feeling towards el museo del barrio, right? i mean, kind of like second... second-class citizen? >> we

in time, the south street became puerto rican, displacing the italians, who moved deeper into brooklyn. the north streets were remained polish extending into green point. his parents purchased a house cheaply and over the years created a home that was a welcome place for their children and grandchildren. this haven was of such serenity that kenny often felt the same respect and awe that he experienced when entering the fragrant solitude of the catholic church, fleeing went the irish seeking refuge from the advancing harlems, the dark skin of the people making unrecognizable the prejudices they had endured when they arrived in america. the defect of memory driving them forward to separate themselves from the shadows that follow all immigrants. fleeing went the puerto ricans, escaping the same blackness, but impeled by the fear of blood, both physical and hereditary, fearing with greater horror the prospect of losing themselves in the anonymity that america forces on all of its people, both groups fought the country's wish for that homogenaity. they both retained both their irishness and

. >> puerto ricans look like they are thinking, did i leave the iron on? >> how about white people?ow do white people dance the salsa. >> the river dance. >> we have about 30 seconds. do you have a website. >> www.cultureclash.com. >> a lot has changed since i first started my career in television, mainly my appearance. today hosting this great show, i say thank you. thank you to my hundreds of guests. thank you to you, the viewer, for allowing me into your homes. thank you to the management at tntv who put up with the man with very little patience for putting the heavyweight of an iconic show on the shoulders of this host for believing in this former farm workers. it is with great honor i host comunidad del valle. thank you for celebrating with me. >> i'm so honored. he was a guest on comunidad del valle when i first began hosting this program that's been on 30 or 40 years. we don't even know. joe hernandez of little joe familia. such an honor to have you back on the show. >> my honor. congratulations. fifteen years. >> you have children? >> that's right. >> congratulations. you're

gutierrez: madam speaker, i rise today to honor a towering figure in puerto rican history and culture. puerto rico and the world lost a pioneering and leading scholar last week with the passing of done ricardo alegria. his study of the history and culture of the indians of puerto rico was groundbreaking work. by helping puerto ricans to understand the african and european heritage as well as many other important aspects of puerto rican history and culture, don ricardo helped us better understand who we are, where we came from and what being puerto rican really means. he's not only a scholar to help puerto ricans understanding our history, he was a determined and proud man that refused to let our culture forgotten and destroyed. he was part of the institute of puerto rican culture and many other research, cultural and other institutions. in this role he was a warrior defending our cultural heritage. it's not an exaggeration to say without his leadership and tenacity the old buildings of san juan which are loved by puerto ricans and visited by millions around the world would not be stan

. >> puerto rican mortar, do you know anything about the sound complain? >> i know that there were complaints coming from the back. president chii do know they hav engaged in conversation with the venue. to try to solve whatever problems and come to a conclusion. there may be something else going on. >> medice ii is closed. the police continue to go back there after hours to find activity there. >> after-hours? >> it is my understanding. there is no permit from us there either. they're trying to work together to keep them from doing things they should not be doing. >> >> these were citations that were issued the saturday before last. i know that the citations were issued after an on view of the sound violations. >> do they have new sound parameters? >> that is possible. and we had the the new in the office and spend an hour on this problem. this is after that meeting. the results of our counseling and it up with citation. >> do you know anything about that one? >> he observed very little control on the front. >> thank you. i have a couple of quick question

coming to the united states and coming into contact with the united states so consequently my puerto rican friends, and some of my irish friends, although they were more circumspect, what are you doing writing about the irish? i'm writing about the united states. the irish are more interesting. they had to put up with colonialism, just as puerto rico is a colony of the united states. i also respect the fact that they have a facility with language, which i also enjoy. consequently, i wondered why this attraction to the irish. in 2004, the university of puerto rico asked me to come there and lecture and read. i immediately called my favorite cousin, and she said, what are you doing here? i told her and i said, please come to the reading, i have a book for you. she came. she said my son is getting married tomorrow at the caribbean hilton, could you please come? and i went. i hadn't seen her in 30 years. we were kids together. and after the wedding, there was a reception and she introduced me to her daughters, very beautiful girls, then i met the last one, very beautiful, green eyes, and she s

while puerto ricans have participated in every u.s. war since world war i. s cannot vote for a president. a majority of puerto ricans have voted against becoming an american state. but the united states took a piece of the spanish empire 113 years ago today. and now you know the news for this monday, jute the 25th, 2011. i'm shepard smith. thanks for having us in your home tonight. "the o'reilly factor" is next. then a special on fox news.

percent these are primarily these are bombings and things primarily from groups that are working for puerto rican. others as mostly the right wing extremists the left wing extremist groups or first things like the jewish defense league is like a communist five percent islamic extremist six percent right are we making much ado about nothing and shouldn't we be concerned about i would see the end of two thousand and five and in two thousand and six i read about this in the book there was sort of a policy decision within al qaeda senior leadership to change their tactics and start going after western europeans and also american citizens because they saw that law enforcement intelligence already and was i mean they were doing no but they made a real estate sale the word terrorist you thousand and six and two thousand and seven and when i show in this book their background documents that i've seen that were produced by the justice department is that since january of two thousand and nine we've had a case of homegrown terrorism here in the united states with some kind of international link whether it's

last night i was in washington and ran into a puerto ricans woman who actually went to the same high school i did and she said you went there? how come you didn't get beat up all time? it was mostly black and latino. i don't know. i use to sculpt a lot. >> it was a rough neighborhood in the shadow of columbia university. >> interestingly enough, i did grow up in the town, most of the parents i knew, my friend's parents were working-class folks, blue collar jobs, etc. but quite an interesting neighborhoods. we were on the cusp of harlem. to listen to music and ca james brown act was the ticket. you also have access to downtown and a university ambiance. i recall being very aware of books for example, going by bookstores on broadway and being fascinated by the prospect of going inside but couldn't bring myself to do that for many years because i thought it was for a different kind of person, a different class, better educated class. on the other hand my mother who did love books but used to collect them as decorative objects almost and since we live in the university neighborhood and b

i would go to the italians and puerto ricans for the clothes and the chinese for the electronics. you have watches. >> for convicted of his current charges, espinoza faces several years in state prison. >> sad to say, but maybe it's what i need. >> while espinoza's legal future is uncertain, his time is drawing to a close. he is about to be transferred to general population. >> tomorrow i get out, thank god. i get to play in the big box again. out of the little box into the big box. daniel also aspires to be placed on the general population. >> mingle with the crowd and get out. never real season it. fight. everybody fights, right? you can't handle situations. you have to fight and somebody will say something if you have problems with me. >> 16 months ago, he was convicted of possession of a firearm and sentenced to two years at the house of correction. a separate jail facility for convicted inmates serving 2 1/2 years or less. due to multiple fights he spent 13 months in segregation. even under those restrictions, he was a significant disciplinary problem >> he has been involved

. >> hinojosa: so your dad was african american, and your mom was puerto rican. >> yes. well, my father's ancestry is... both through the caribbean, so... but yes. >> hinojosa: and what was going on in the bronx when you were growing up? >> da bronx. >> hinojosa: da bronx. were people saying, "look at this smart kid who wants to be a scientist"? >> oh, no, no. >> hinojosa: "how cool is that"? >> oh, no. no, no. no one cared about your brains. could you jump high, could you run fast, could you shoot a basketball? >> hinojosa: all of your teachers, the community... >> oh, no. i'm talking about in the playgrounds where i grew up. no one... there was no intellectual conversation going on in the playground. and so to get respect of friends and of the community, you... athletics mattered. and i wonder if my athletic talents that i accrued over the years were entirely the consequence of me fulfilling the expectations of others rather than me following any actual interest that lived deep within me. >> hinojosa: really? so you may not actually have been a jock? >> it's not obviou

. >> and over time, puerto rican voters may come to like his conservative government.'s popularity suffered when he made cuts so did johnson's in new mexico but all were re-elected by big margins. >> i knew how it was going to be. i was in washington in the reagan's a first term. know how it was the first two years but he was doing a lot of the right stuff. he won by a landslide. >> john: his advice to leaders who want to shrink the state. >> do what they need to do quickly, swiftly. just do it and move on to better things. >> john: coming up next, the country that is nearly went off the cliff but came back stronger than ever. >> they fixed it. to keep in balance after 50, i switched to a complete multivitamin with more. only one a day women's 50+ advantage has ginkgo for memory and concentration, plus support for bone and breast health. a great addition to my routine. [ female announcer ] one a day women's. our girl's an architect. our boy's a genius. we are awesome parents! biddly-boop. [ male announcer ] if you find a lower rate on a room you've booked, we won't jus

. >> and over time, puerto rican voters may come to like his conservative government.'s popularity suffered when he made cuts so did johnson's in new mexico but all were re-elected by big margins. >> i knew how it was going to be. i was in washington in the reagan's a first term. know how it was the first two years but he was doing a lot of the right stuff. he won by a landslide. >> john: his advice to leaders who want to shrink the state. >> do what they need to do quickly, swiftly. just do it and move on to better things. >> john: coming up next, the country that is nearly went off the cliff but came back stronger than ever. >> they fixed it. >> they fixed it. multivitamin with more. only one a day women's 50+ advantage has ginkgo for memory and concentration, plus support for bone and breast health. a great addition to my routine. [ female announcer ] one a day women's. >> john: what can we do? there is another country not far from here that figured that out. just a few hundred miles north. canada, the country of cline, hockey and logging. when i thought of canada i

go to the italians, puerto ricans for the close. go to the chinese for the electronics that you can get you know, from watches. >> reporter: if convicted of his current charges, espinoza could face several years in state prison. >> hate to say it, but maybe it's what i need. >> reporter: while his legal future is still uncertain, his time in segregation is drawing to a close. he's about to be transferred to general population. >> tomorrow i get out. thank god. get to play in the big box again. out of the little box, into the big box. hate the little box. >> reporter: like espinoza, daniel also aspires to are placed on the general population unit. >> got to mingle with the crowd. you get to get out. i never been a part. only part -- never seen -- like two weeks. >> what was it? >> a fight. everybody fights. right? i can't handle situations without a fight. someone says something to you or you got problems and you got to act on it. if you don't, they will. >> reporter: 16 months ago, esdale was convicted of possession of a firearm and

mir puerto rican dhere. >> after they spoke to her, they let her go.tements that she gave in that interrogation were identical to the ones that she gave to the police later on, to her parents, all of which the jury heard. it wasn't like she gave a confession and that never would have been heard by the mi juryd hell of a competitor mirandaizeed her. >> bill: and all of the statements turned out to be untrue which she was convicted of. she was convicted of lie together investigators. now, you followed this case very closely and you are a judge. and to me i'm angry tonight and i know millions of my viewers are angry as well. we don't believe that caylee anthony got justice because of the preponderance of the circumstancial evidence and looks like the jury bent over backwards to give casey anthony the benefit of the doubt. i don't think there was now doubt but obviously those 12 people do. do you see it that way? >> yes, i do. i'm not angry and this hurts me to say, in the years and thousands of trials i have handled, i have seen people proven more guilty

. >> do you know where she's from with a name like -- >> she's puerto rican and her father is black.w york. she lives in miami. >> just on and on, lie after lie and no remorse about the lies. if you catch her had n a lie, she doesn't care. >> in 2008 casey took investigators to universal studios where she claimed she worked, but again, she was caught in the lie when they discovered she was fired two years earlier. >> ms. anthony told us she worked at universal studios. she was very matter of fact when she told us what she did. >> did you lie to us? >> >> if you do point it out to her and say wait a minute i know that was a lie when she got to universal studios, and then she moves on to her next lie. >> how old is she. >> she's almost three. >> do you think she -- >> because she's with someone else. >> she's with someone else. she hid her from you for five weeks. but she was -- >> the jury listens as investigators seem to get fed up with casey's stories. >> here's where the truth needs to come out. okay, no more lies, no more opening up your mouth. we have been very respective. but we

your mother is puerto ricans in your part latina. do you know spanish? i don't even know if you do. >> guest: unfortunately not. a great and there is not on my mother. pos could you understand it at all? of course you know arabic. you know arabic because you spend some time in egypt, and i did also when i was younger so did the knowledge of other languages help you? >> guest: absolutely. after high school instead of away to college right away i traveled a of a year and a half, and it was during the gulf war i started out increase and to my parents unhappiness i went over to the middle east and lived in egypt and israel and jordan specifically during that time period so it was phenomenal in terms of the cultural knowledge that on the accumulated, but also the language skills, too and i fell in love from a very early age partially due to study in history as a kid and looking through at all the arts and the egyptians in history. but, so my love of the middle east and study before my unit went to iraq i became this cultural expert and taught courses in the m

so that's -- that was part of their puerto rican trip. now, hickock, like miller, certainly wasn't a member of the upper crust. she was the daughter of a traveling butter maker in south dakota who had abused her as a child. as a reporter for the associated press, she had learned to write for average people. and she encouraged eleanor to write in that kind of style, and she also encouraged eleanor, who she admired tremendously, to see herself as a role model for ordinary women. the my day column certainly had the air of one neighbor talking to another. this conversational style highlighted many of the communication activities. the advice column for women magazines, the articles she wrote for women's magazines on such topics as a day in the life of the white house, the role of women in politics, the role of women in -- cleaning up conditions in their own communities, that kind of thing. eleanor paid radio broadcasts and paid tours and what she did do from the column made her an income. she averaged about $70,000 a year, an average of $70,00

she spoke spanish, she was quite involved in puerto rican politics, and she repped arrange for -- helps arrange the trip. these other people are devoted admirers of eleanor, they covered eleanor's press concernses for women only. lorena hickok who had to leave the associated press because she was so close to eleanor, she had no more journalistic integrity or objectivity. had given the idea of having press conferences for women reporters only to give women something that the men couldn't get. ruby black was extremely involved in these press conferences, and it was because of this woman-only rule that ruby black was hired by the united press which in those days had a rule agains

your mother is puerto rican so you are part latina if you will. do you know spanish? i don't even know if you do. >> guest: unfortunately not, the great embarrassment of my mother. >> host: do you understand it at all? >> guest: a little bit, yeah. >> host: of horse you know arabic tissue spence of time in egypt. i did also when i was younger and i studied arabic in school. did that knowledge of other languages help you while you were in iraq or in kuwait? >> guest: absolutely. after high school instead of going to college right away i traveled travel for a year and a half and it was during the gulf war. i started off in greece and through my parents and have been as i went to the middle east and lived in egypt and israel and jordan, specifically during that time period not. so in terms of just the cultural knowledge that i accumulated but also just a language skills too and i fell in love with the middle east from a very early age. due to studying history and looking through and looking at all the arts and the egyptians and history. but, so my love of the middle east

your mother is puerto rican -- >> guest: yes. >> host: so you are part latina, if you will.o you know spanish? >> guest: unfortunately not. to the great embarrassment of my mother. [laughter] >> host: do you understand it at all. >> guest: a little bit. >> host: and you know arabic because you spent some time in egypt, and i did also when i was younger, and i studied arabic when i was in school. did the knowledge of other languages help you in iraq or kuwait? >> guest: absolutely. after high school i traveled for about a year and a half, and it was during the gulf war i started off in greece, and then to my parents' unhappiness, i went over to the middle east and lived in egypt and israel and jordan, um, specifically during that time period. so in terms of just the cultural knowledge that i accumlated but also just some language skills too, i fell in love with the middle east from a very early age. probably due to just studying history as looking through and looking at all the art from the egyptians and history. but, um, so my love of the middle east then led me to study fur

if your mother is puerto rican so you are part latina if he will. did you see -- i don't know if you do. >> guest: unfortunately i do not. it agreed in paris that of my mother. >> host: do you understand it? >> guest: a little bit, yes. >> host: of course you know arabic because you spent some time in egypt. >> guest: that's correct. >> host: i'd also when i was younger i studied arabic in school, so did the knowledge of other languages helped you while you were in iraq or kuwait? >> guest: absolutely. after high school instead of going to college right away a troubled about a year and a half and it was during the gulf war i started off increase and to my parents on happiness i went over to the middle east and lived in egypt and israel and jordan specifically during that time period, so it was phenomenal and cultural knowledge that i accumulated but also just the language skills, too and i fell in love with of the middle east from a very early age study in history as a kid and looking through looking at all the art from the regions and in history. b

gutierrez: yesterday, the american civil liberties union, the puerto rican liberties defense and the national institute for latino policy published this first page in "roll call," one of the key newspapers here on capitol hill. these civil rights and policy organizations have denounced the civil and hamm rights crisis in puerto rico. they bought a full-page ad to alert congress about the serious concerns about civil and human rights, about abuses against the citizens of puerto rico by their government, including the infringement of right of free speech, peaceful assembly, freedom from police violence and abuse, end quote. and they make an essential point. if these abuses were happening anywhere in the 50 states they would not be tolerated. these abuses would be the front page on every newspaper as they are in puerto rico. it's time for this congress to start paying attention. students and working people, journalists and environmentalists in puerto rico are paying attention because the freedoms we take for granted in america are being denied to them each day. i'd like today to remind

northern uganda recovery act, requiring the administration to prepare and present to congress a come puerto ricans i have strategy to bring l.r.a. commanders to justice. with the administration's strategy released in november, we should move to help end the atrocities committed by the l.r.a. and protect innocent civilians and stabilize a region of africa that is critical to the united states' interests. through over 20 years of civil war, this brutal insurgency has created a humanitarian crisis that has resulted in the abduction of over 20,000 children and one of the world's most difficult ungoverned spaces. i would like to yield to the gentleman from massachusetts, who is continuing to take a lead role in this international effort. mr. mcgovern: i thank the gentleman for yielding and his support. the lmple r.a. has terrorized civilians and abducted tens of thousands of children, many of whom who have been forced into soldiering or sex slavery. it expands in the democratic of congo and central african republic. it is the deadliest group and has displaced several of hundreds of thousands of people

[applause] sara growth in the puerto rican family in harlem where she also served as translator for herparents which we have been her first experience and at his feet. she went as a prosecutor in new york and then in pennsylvania as the second highest ranking latina in the pennsylvanian government as the deputy secretary for the state regulatory program and also served as the regional council diplomat. sara manzano-diaz has an understanding of the complexity that face women in the workplace today we're juggling work and family responsibility is still flawed and true equality is still a goal, not a reality. we are glad to have a champion in the women's bureau and i give you sara manzano-diaz. [applause] i can multitask. good evening. buenos aires. very good. can you rolph your "r"? and [laughter] that's how you do it. all righty. first of all, terry, thank you for that kind introduction. i was just thinking how tired i am. [laughter] so that was good. i like that. and i also want to thank you for your incredible leadership because we rest on the shoulders of the lee visa came before us a

>> i know what you're doing, gretchen, you're pinning the cuban against the puerto rican to get a littleing here. i disagree with geraldo. evidence of a good mother, if you will think back, susan smith, people came out of the woodwork and said oh, my god. she's such a good mother. she was a good mother until she strapped her kids in a car seat and shoved it in the lake. her friends coming forward at the trial which they did, she was so good with caylee and the little video of her playing. the problem is that we're trying to put the way we behave into the mine of somebody who i think is a sociopath. they don't think that way. they'll be charming and love you and everything until you become inconvenient. the minute you become inconvenient, they'll toss you like an old t-shirt. >> i found it interesting on a capital murder case, they never called, this jury never called to look at one more piece of evidence. is that unusual? >> no, not really. i mean, a lot of times if jurors have a question about testimony or evidence, they'll ask to hear the testimony back. the evidence is generally in th

lawyer but they would laugh to say you arehous poor and live in public t housing in of girl am puerto ricans it is against you but the more people that told me know, i guess what? and i said i will show you.ggin what just the struggle to be the person that i wanted to become a that struggleou doesn't happen to our goals as they go around and speak it is important and that is why it is important because we do need to be linked, not all made to the past and the president but. >> and now serves as a catalyst for all of this change. the struggles that we had were withn family. my cities, my regions and the nation's. i get to me from international delegation all over the world for of wrote that there is domestic violence against worldo would-- women, workplace flexibility, they want to know whether we doing?erta to a certain extent they told us to the gold standard but we're also behind the curvehi depending on who you talk to. it is an incredible honorut for me to be here to talk we about what we're doing in the administration to help women.he i am very proud to work with this historic administr

[applause] sara growth in the puerto rican family in harlem where she also served as translator for her parents which we have been her first experience and at his feet. she went as a prosecutor in new york and then in pennsylvania as the second highest ranking latina in the pennsylvanian government as the deputy secretary for the state regulatory program and also served as the regional council diplomat. sara manzano-diaz has an understanding of the complexity that face women in the workplace today we're juggling work and family responsibility is still flawed and true equality is still a goal, not a reality. we are glad to have a champion in the women's bureau and i give you sara manzano-diaz. [applause] i can multitask. good evening. buenos aires. very good. can you rolph your "r"? and [laughter] that's how you do it. all righty. first of all, terry, thank you for that kind introduction. i was just thinking how tired i am. [laughter] so that was good. i like that. and i also want to thank you for your incredible leadership because we rest on the shoulders of the lee visa came before us

by the way, the puerto rican community is quite energized and excited about that because ponce de leon when he came and found at the feast deflowers, pasca de flores -- and thus he named la florida -- he was the governor of puerto rico. so they are quite excited, as they should be, and going to be part of this celebration. and after him came a spanish explorer that sailed up the coast named dae ayone. later in 1527 came a spanish explorer, narviace. he landed somewhere in the stamp aregion and went up into the -- in the tampa region and went up into the panhandle of florida. after him came the spanish floridaer hernando de soto in the late 1530's. he ended up also in the tampa bay region when all over florida celebrated the first christmas because he had spanish priests with him and was in what is today sal haas tallahassee by cs day they celebrated the first christian christmas by europeans in this new world of what is now the united states. and that was the late 1530's. and then he ended up traveling all over the u.s., southern -- what is now the southern -- southeastern u.s. and the