Aug 17, 2017 | Audio, Black Lives Matter, Electoral Politics, Media Appearances
“This is about us being able to live our lives.” – Rosa Clemente Listen to the Podcast at PoliticallyReactive.com Kamau and Hari dive deep into the events that stirred the nation this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia. One of the largest...
Jun 26, 2017 | Audio, Black Lives Matter, Hip Hop, Media Appearances, Police, Puerto Rico
Listen to Rosa Clemente and Davey D of Hard Knock Radio discuss Puerto Rico, Anti-Blackness, and Philando Castile. Listen on KPFA
Jun 21, 2017 | Media Appearances, Puerto Rico, Rising Up with Sonali
First published on Rising Up with Sonali FEATURING ROSA CLEMENTE – News reports this week celebrated a vote held in Puerto Rico, a colony of the US, as being overwhelmingly in favor of statehood. The idea of Puerto Rico as the US’s 51st state is a seductive one but...
Jun 12, 2017 | Media Appearances, Puerto Rico, Video
“United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell” explores Puerto Rican culture and politics. Activist Rosa Clemente explains her belief that the commonwealth’s tie to the United States was never a choice. Watch the episode on cnn.com
Jun 11, 2017 | Media Appearances, Political Prisoners, Puerto Rico
Join freedom fighter Oscar Lopez Rivera in Springfield, MA on June 21st, 2017!
May 15, 2017 | Afro-Latinx, Hip Hop, Women Of Color
Watch this video on YouTube Rosa Clemente speaks at Rock the School Bells at Skyline College about the essence of hip hop, the legacy of speaking truth to power, and the dire context of an administration lead by an overt White...
Feb 26, 2017 | Afro-Latinx, Journalism, Women Of Color
In 1993, I was a student at the State University of New York-Albany when Dr. Marta Moreno Vega came to speak on our campus. Until that evening, I had never heard the term Afro-Latina. In fact, I had just learned what it meant when someone said “African descendant.”...
Jan 23, 2017 | Electoral Politics, Journalism, Rising Up with Sonali
Produced for Rising Up with Sonali. Millions of people marched around the country and also the world on January 21st. Among them were my guest Rosa Clemente, the 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential candidate, who knows a thing or two about electoral politics and...
