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A collection of portraits of the rap and hip hop artists by the famed photographer Janette Beckman that were taken between 1982 and 1990.

Jewelry store owner Moe Rosen is welcomed into the community of West Indian immigrants that has taken over his Brooklyn neighborhood after he saves a Haitian woman from a brutal mugging, but his involvement in the lives of his new friends eventually leads him and those he loves into grave danger.

Chronicles the events surrounding the 1911 fire at the Triangle Factory in New York City in which 146 young girls were killed and explains how the fire prompted changes in the American workforce.

An anthology of autobiographical essays in which Afro-Puerto Rican activist Jesus Colon recalls his life in the Hispanic and politically radical communities of New York City.

Contains over twenty poems, some in English and some in Spanish, in which the author explores the place and language of Hispanic people in the United States.

A third collection of poetry by Latino author Sandra Maria Esteves.

Contains five plays by contemporary Puerto Rican playwrights, all written in the 1980s and produced in and outside of New York.

In the world of 1950s New York City street gangs, an Anglo boy and a Puerto Rican girl fall in love. Their story echoes Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, when the feud between rival gangs leads to tragedy and death.