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[27] [28] New York City mayor Bill de Blasio also participated greeting attendees and shaking hands. [29] After public and corporate backlash, Mayor De Blasio had announced that López Rivera would not be honored at the 2017 parade [30] but, in the end, the Puerto Rican activist was honored and kicked off the Parade celebration.
The Night of the Pencils (in Spanish: Noche de los Lápices), was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of 10 high-school students that began on the evening of 16 September 1976 and continued into the next day, during Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship. The event is one of the ...
National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (Spanish: Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas, CONADEP) was an Argentine organization created by President Raúl Alfonsín on 15 December 1983, shortly after his inauguration, to investigate the fate of the desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance) and other human rights violations (see: Dirty War) performed during the ...
Black Hand symbol A New York Police Department wanted poster for Black Hand activity, 1910. Black Hand (Italian: Mano Nera) was a type of Italian extortion racket. Originally developed in the eighteenth century, Black Hand extortion was exported to the United States in the later nineteenth century with Italian immigrants.
Humans of New York (HONY) is a photoblog and book of street portraits and interviews collected on the streets of New York City. Started in November 2010 by photographer Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York has developed a large following through social media. As of March 2015, the book had spent 31 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. [1]
La Nacional is a cultural institution founded by Spaniards to serve the Spanish community in the New York area. The Society is the oldest Spanish cultural Institution ...
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition."
Noticiero Telemundo: Fin de Semana airs at 6:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time (5:30 p.m. Central and Mountain). In December 2015, del Villar was joined as co-anchor of the Saturday and Sunday editions by Felicidad Aveleyra (who joined the network from Univision owned-and-operated station KMEX-DT in Los Angeles, where she served as anchor of its ...