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Bronx Elected Officials, Housing Advocates & Union Leaders Hold Counter Protests to Trump Rally

By FAHIMA DEGIA
Sitting at his home in The Bronx, Brian Camilo, 21, watched live on television as former U.S. President Donald J. Trump threw paper towel after paper towel into a large crowd of Puerto Ricans who were crammed inside Calvary Chapel, Puerto Rico seeking comfort, reassurance, and support in the wake of Hurricane Maria after it devastated their island in September 2017. For Camilo, the former president’s seemingly flippant actions signaled to him that the wealthy didn’t care about the struggles and hardships of Hispanics.

Hip Hop Fever Returns to Lehman Center for the Performing Arts on May 18

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Following last year’s successful Hip Hop Fever concert at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, to mark the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop, 50 years after the Hip Hop musical genre was born in the neighborhoods of the South Bronx in the early 1970s, “Hip Hop Fever” is back!