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...
Nov 17, 2016 | Black Lives Matter, Journalism, Rising Up with Sonali
Produced for Rising Up with Sonali. A video of a white man screaming insults at a female employee of Starbucks in Miami has gone viral. The man yelled at the woman of color, “You’re trash…you’re garbage…you’re complete trash,” and, “I voted for Trump,” and “you lost.”...
Nov 11, 2016 | Electoral Politics
I know it has been a rough week, I know we are all confused. Some in complete shock, some not too shocked, but all in some kind of pain. Everyone has the right to be in their feelings, sit with them and to reflect. No one’s timeline in how to move forward...
