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NYPL celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month by Jean Harripersaud, Bronx Library Center September 15, 2010

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The New York Public Library’s premier Puerto Rican/Latino Cultural Center—The Bronx Library Center—kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month with Pioneros II: Puerto Ricans in New York City 1948–1998, an exhibit from the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. The exhibit is based on the book by the same title by Virginia Sánchez Korrol (Professor emerita at Brooklyn College) and Pedro Juan Hernández (Archivist at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College).
 
Following World War II, there was a mass migration of Puerto Ricans to New York. The book/exhibit features images and text which documents “their stories and struggles, culture and values, entrepreneurship, and civic, political, and educational gains. The Puerto Rican community's long history and achievements opened pathways for the city's newer Latino immigrant communities.”
 
Hispanic Heritage Week was first observed in the United States in 1968 under President Lyndon Johnson. In 1988 it was extended to Hispanic Heritage Month spanning September 15 to October 15 by President Ronald Reagan. Hispanic Americans are those who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico and the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
 
According to the US Census Bureau, Hispanics are the largest minority group in the US. Approximately 16% of the US population is of Hispanic origin.
 
In additional to the exhibit running through Nov. 15, the Bronx Library Center will host the following events:
 
All events are free and open to the public. For more information, please call the Bronx Library Center at 718-579-4244.

 

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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with non-Columbus Day.

Submitted by Mario Enrique Calaf Rios Pinot on September 16, 2010 at 10:44 AM.

I always forget about HHM and its always a pleasant surprise, could this be why I forget? In my place of work www.fountainhouse.org one of the white female senior directors wants to un-celebrate Columbus Day. What could this mean? It sounds rather radical. It at least questions our days of secular celebration. I was born in Puerto Rico and so am a Boricua, the Taino Amerindian word. Thank you. Gracias.

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