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Bronx Frontlines

Olga M. Segura

A newsletter exploring issues of identity and displacement in the Bronx and New York City from one of the city's many Caribbean perspectives. Bronx Frontlines is a mix of reporting, essays, photography, and cultural reviews.

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A Bronx strike history

(Photo of Bronx tenants in 1917 in The New York Tribune.)

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What's happening in the Bronx & NYC

(Community sign held during a 2023 protest on Webster following the shooting of Raul De La Cruz.)

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On the 1968 NYC sanitation workers’ strike

(Anderson Avenue during the 1968 strike. Photo by Dennis Harper via Wikimedia Commons.)

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What's happening around the Bronx

(Photo by José A. Alvarado Jr. for Chalkbeat’s “Dylan’s return: NYC’s first public school student detained by ICE returns to school after 10 months.”)

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A firehouse burns down

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    Olga M. Segura was born in Santo Domingo and raised in the Bronx. She is the author of “Birth of a Movement: Black Lives Matter and the Catholic Church.”

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