Tag: Dominican Republic
How bachata rose from Dominican Republic’s brothels and shantytowns to become...
Wilfredo José Burgos Matos, Lehman College, CUNY
What began as songs about heartbreak in the brothels and barrios of...
The promise and peril of the Dominican baseball pipeline
Rob Ruck, University of Pittsburgh
Latinos will comprise about 30 percent of Major League Baseball rosters on Opening Day, in large part because MLB has...
At the beauty salon, Dominican-American women conflicted over quest for straight...
Melissa Godin, New York University
When Chabelly Pacheco – a Dominican-American who moved to Long Island when she was five years old – walks into...
EXPLORING NATURE
Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks –...
Kelly Lambert, University of Richmond
When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025,...
