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programs in schools. They also pushed for access to
Tuberculosis testing and lead paint testing, in addition to the general improvement of treatment for Puerto Rican patients in local hospitals. Their work with healthcare played a role in bringing about "the Patient's Bill of Rights which is now standard in New York City hospitals." The organization often used direct action to bring these changes about, most famously occupying the First Spanish Methodist Church in East Harlem for 11 days under Luciano's leadership. The goal of the action was to demand that the parishioners "provide more social services for the East Harlem community," and the church ultimately "agreed to establish a day-care center for the community's children."
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Haitian, he debates the history of the Caribbean. With an African-American, he talks as if he had just come out of the ghetto (in fact, he has lived on the Upper East Side for many years). With Hispanic guests to his show, he reverts to short, endearing phrases in Spanish." In this way, his work, art, and activism connect to the larger project of fighting anti-Blackness within the Latinx community and to uplifting Black Latinx stories, experiences, art, and visions of liberation.
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his childhood was cut short, in large part due to the absence of his father. At age 12 he became part of a gang called the
Canarsie Chaplain Division, which was made up of "guys who would go hard if forced to, but would rather look good, go to school, and talk to the ladies." Of his early adolescence he says, "I went buck wild — gangs, screwing around, getting high, I got involved in all that stuff," but he also recalls the bonds between members of the gang as being defined by "true, everlasting love."
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In addition, Luciano is often thought of as representing many different groups at once. Writing about
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and was raised by his mother, Aurora, who was a devout
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was in jail with the leader of a gang called the Young Lords named Cha Cha
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Luciano has written about and discussed his experiences with anti-Blackness throughout his life. Luciano reports that he "appears on Black forums all the time" but has "never been invited on a Latino forum. On the radio, but not on TV. I've even had ad executives say that I was too dark and that
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African-American/Latinx conflict, saying "We had Afros. We wore Dashikis. We were friends with Muslims. And one third of the party was African-American! So this notion that we can’t celebrate each other’s culture, or fight in each other’s revolution is false."
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The group, which eventually changed its name from the Young Lords
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Luciano's most famous work is titled "Jíbaro, My Pretty N*****", which " Puerto Ricans to accept their Blackness, island roots, and shared plight with African Americans." The poem uses nature imagery and includes themes of radical Black love, migration, and diaspora, and posits the "symbolic,
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social organization." As for the creation of the New York chapter that Luciano helped found, he explains, "We heard about it, sent a group out there, and started a chapter in New York. I was elected chairman, and we became a political party."
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