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A Latino-Led Coming-of-Age Movie? Here’s Everything to Know About ‘Miguel Wants to Fight’

Kiko Martinez — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:12:15 +0000

First-look photos were just released for the new coming-of-age Hulu movie Miguel Wants to Fight, and it’s great to see that the platform has invested in another Latine-led project. The film stars Tyler Dean Flores (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as the title character, a high school junior who has never experienced getting into a

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Dascha Polanco Joins CALIA as Brand Ambassador

Kiko Martinez — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:43:35 +0000

Fitness apparel brand CALIA has welcomed Dascha Polanco (Orange is the New Black) to its team. The 39-year-old actress is now one of its new brand ambassadors. “Being around these amazing women from different aspects of life and representing experience and being able to relate to, I think it’s important for the customer, the consumer,

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‘The Dream Is Attainable’: On Dascha Polanco’s Personal Connection to Her Role in ‘In the Heights’

Kiko Martinez — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:52:46 +0000

Growing up between the neighborhoods of Sunset Park and Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York, Dominican American actress Dascha Polanco (TV’s Orange is the New Black) remembers what made the communities so special to her when she was a kid. It was the people. “They were different, but they all had the same common denominator: immigrants,”

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Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins & More ‘In the Heights’ Cast Members Tell Us Their Favorite Piragua Flavors

Kiko Martinez — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 16:09:36 +0000

In In the Heights, Broadway superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) plays an unnamed piragüero, a street vendor who pushes a cart around the Washington Heights neighborhood selling piraguas, which is what shaved ice is called in Puerto Rico. Although the word piragua is specific to Puerto Rican culture, there are several terms Latinos use for the

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Watch Dascha Polanco & the ‘Orange is the New Black’ Cast Host an Anti-Racist Criminal Justice Reform Event

Manuel Betancourt — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:19:20 +0000

There is perhaps no show better suited to host a roundtable around the issue of mass incarceration and criminal justice reform as it affects communities of color than Orange is the New Black. The Netflix show always wove a committed social justice message through its storylines — be they about prison reform, the war on drugs

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Self-Care: Dascha Polanco Says It’s OK If You Don’t Want to Do Sh*t Right Now

Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:10:40 +0000

We’re all in this together. As we settle into self-distancing, many of us have to learn how to navigate our daily lives in an unprecedented way. Self-Care is an ongoing series where we’ll chat with some of our favorite artists, creatives and other inspiring experts in their fields about how they’re navigating this moment. In

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Why the ‘Gentefied’ Creators Re-Wrote an Afro-Latina Character for Actress Julissa Calderon

Manuel Betancourt — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:37:51 +0000

Gentefied creators were intent on casting a Los Angeles-born actress to play Yessika Flores—the 23-year-old Afro-Latina activist who is Ana Morales’ love interest on the show. Authentic representation was key. But, that all changed when Julissa Calderon stepped into the room to read for Yessika. As co-creator Marvin Lemus told Remezcla back at Sundance, every casting

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‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Stephanie Beatriz Is Proud of Being at the Forefront of a New Era of Queer Latinx Visibility

Manuel Betancourt — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:17:35 +0000

Stephanie Beatriz, who plays Detective Rosa Diaz in NBC’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, has no shortage of praise for her co-stars. Talking with Remezcla during this year’s Winter Television Critics Association (TCA) about the sitcom’s upcoming seventh season, she immediately lights up when discussing her fellow actors. Considering she’s been working alongside the likes of Terry Crews and Andy

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TRAILER: ‘In the Heights’ Movie Is a Vibrant, Colorful and Music-Filled Celebration of Latinos

Monica Castillo — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:32:50 +0000

Some trailers premiere to much fanfare at Comic Con. Others just show up on the internet. But for the team behind Jon M. Chu’s highly anticipated adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’ musical In the Heights, it was important to start the party in the neighborhood that inspired them. At 809 Restaurant on

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Dascha Polanco Tapped to Narrate Sofia Quintero’s Audiobook About a Formerly Incarcerated Afro-Latina

Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:12:05 +0000

Calling all lovers of good books! Sofia Quintero’s beloved novel “Picture Me Rollin’” is getting the VIP audiobook treatment, and Audible tapped Afro-Latina actress Dascha Polanco to do the honors. This is the Dominican-American’s first time narrating an audiobook. But Quintero, who penned the book under the Black Artemis moniker in 2005, calls Polanco a

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