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[25 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
A Petición Popular La Conferencia Para Asuntos Dominicanos de NJ Presenta Documental Los Panfleteros de Santiago

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La Conferencia para Asuntos Dominicanos que celebrará su décimo aniversario el domingo 21 de febrero del 2010 en la Universidad Rutgers School of Law en Newark, New Jersey, presentará peticion popular el documental original Los Panfleteros de Santiago. 
Los Panfleteros de Santiago es un documental cinematográfico original que relata la historia de valentía y heroísmo de 32 jóvenes rebeldes que ejerciendo derecho a expresión, desafiaron la cruel tiranía del dictador Rafael Leonidas Trujillo distribuyendo un panfleto hiriente y de oposición, hecho a mano. El documental es una …

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[8 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Dominican rapper tells NJ students stay in school

PERTH AMBOY, N.J. (AP) — Boredom soon turned to surprised frenzy for some 600 New Jersey students.
Dominican rapper Max Agende Santos was in the house Thursday to tell the Perth Amboy High School juniors that they need to stay in school.
The 27-year-old member of the award-winning group Aventura freestyled across the stage, telling students how a strong education has helped his success.

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[7 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Latinos count ahead to add clout

BY ELIZABETH LLORENTE
NorthJersey.com
STAFF WRITER
Dominican-Americans are independently counting up their ethnic community in New Jersey to address what they say is longtime undercounting of their population by the U.S. Census Bureau.
In Paterson, the first city where sampling is nearly complete, those involved in the project say they have counted at least 40,000 residents of Dominican Republic origin. That is almost the same number of Dominicans the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2007 American Community Survey found in Passaic County. The census counted 23,800 in Paterson.
“We’re taking matters into our own hands,” said Jacelyn …

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[7 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
Dominicans in New Jersey: A Community on the Move

through November 15, 2003
Second Floor Gallery
Curated by María Teresa Feliciano, Wendy Martínez and Charles F. Cummings
Dominicans in New Jersey: A Community on the Move is a salute to one of the state’s fastest growing Latino populations. It is the first exhibition in New Jersey honoring one of the state’s newest communities, which is predominately located in Passaic, Essex, Union and Middlesex counties.