‘We Refuse to be Displaced’: Celebrating Puerto Rican Pride in Sunset Park (opens in new tab)

“We don’t do a parade just to be festive. From the beginning this has been a community-led effort to keep ourselves safe in a neighborhood with a long history of over-policing Puerto Ricans,” said Dennis Flores, founder of El Grito’s Sunset Park Puerto Rican Parade and Festival, which returns this weekend. The post appeared first on .