Does Anyone Know Enrique Emmanuelli?

To all my readers especially in the New York area:

A relative of mine asked if I could help her make contact with her brother with whom she has lost contact. They lost contact due to the various moves they had both undergone. Enrique would be 67 years old now. He worked as a Diesel Mechanic in Long Island City, New York and built motorcycles. He has two daughters and a son. He had moved to Puerto Rico at one time but my sister-and-law is not sure if he is still on the island or has moved back to the states.

Should you know Enrique Emmanuelli or know of him please leave a comment below ( do not include your email in the comment body, only where it ask you when posting the comment ) or pass on the information so that he may initiate contact. Let him know that his sister, Yolanda is trying to re-establish contact with him.

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CNN Web site targeted

Well it would seem that a battle has been raging between CNN and China over a commentary made on April 9, 2008 by Jack Cafferty regarding China or more correctly put, the words Cafferty used.
It would seem that the incident came to a head yesterday when: More...

Puerto Rican Cop Gets 109 years for killing Civilian

This case has been watched very closely by the Puerto Ricans on the island and in the states. Today the final chapter was closed when the judge sentenced Javier Pagán Cruz to 99 years on charges of murder and 10 years on weapons charges. Read more here: The Last Caribbean Bohemian Artist.
Many will remember this case since it was flashed across the internet because the cop was caught in the act by a bystander on video. This video ended up on YouTube and was seen worldwide.

Puerto Rican Poet/Writer Piri Thomas Suffers Stroke

Puerto Rican poet and writer, Piri Thomas, best known for his depiction of barrio survival in Down These Mean Streets, suffered a stroke.

The 79 year old author is recovering in his now home of California.
Capicu Poetry is compiling email and audio messages to send to the poet, to serve as a source of strength for Piri, since he has been a source of strength to countless Latinos (and others).
If you want to send Piri Thomas a get well message please email CapicuPoetry@gmail.com or call their community hotline (208) 723-5966.

Down These Mean Streets is the autobiography of Piri Thomas, a Latino of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent who grew up in El Barrio (aka Spanish Harlem), a section of Harlem that has a large Puerto Rican population. In the book, we watch Piri as he goes through the first few decades of his life, lives in poverty, joins and fights with street gangs, faces racism (in both New York and the South), suffers through heroin addiction, gets involved in crime, and ends up in prison.
Down These Mean Streets reads similarly to The Autobiography of Malcolm X in that both books are vivid, brutally honest memoirs of experiences of racial prejudice and discrimination, identity formation, and youthful involvement with crime that leads to life-altering prison experiences. One of the major themes of Down These Mean Streets centers on Piri Thomas's identity as a dark-complected Afro-Latino. Although he is of Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage, the larger American society takes him for African-American and fails to recognize him as Latino. His own family rejects the African aspect of their Latin-Caribbean ancestry, causing Piri to spend much of his adolescent and early adult life contemplating his racial and ethnic identity.
Down These Mean Streets has either been banned or has risked banning attempts in Salinas, CA; Teaneck, NJ; Darien, CT; District 25 in Queens, NYC, NY; and in Long Island, NY.
The book was originally published in 1967, and later republished in a special Thirtieth Anniversary Edition in 1997, with a new afterword from the author. A sequel was made, called 7 Long Times, which gives more depth to his prison years.
You can view two videos of Piri Thomas at The Last Caribbean, Bohemian Artist
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_These_Mean_Streets