Felipe Luciano
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Felipe Luciano is an American poet, community activist, journalist, media personality, and politician. He is of Puerto Rican
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 heritage.

Luciano served time in prison for manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of a Brooklyn teenager in the early 1960s. Following his release, he attended Queens College
Queens College, City University of New York
Queens College, located in Flushing, Queens, New York City, is one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York. It is also the fifth oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning. The college's seventy seven acre campus is located in the heart of the...

 and became a member of the Original Last Poets
The Last Poets
The Last Poets is a group of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s African American civil rights movement's black nationalist thread...

 (with Gylan Kain
Gylan Kain
Gylan Kain is an American poet and playwright. He was a founding member, in 1968, of the Original Last Poets...

 and David Nelson).

He co-founded the Young Lords
Young Lords
The Young Lords, later Young Lords Organization and in New York , Young Lords Party, was a Puerto Rican nationalist group in several United States cities, notably New York City and Chicago.-Founding:...

 (also called the Young Lords Party) in the 1960s and served as its chair. Although the Young Lords in Chicago began as a gang before they became politicized, the Young Lords Party in NYC reportedly began as a political movement.

Luciano later became a radio, television, and print journalist, and won several awards . He is President and founder of Luciano Productions, Inc.

Films

  • 1971 - Right On!: Poetry on Film (Original Last Poets; directed by Herbert Danska)
  • 1979 - Salsa: Latin Music in the Cities (directed by Jeremy Marre)
  • 1996 - Palante, Siempre Palante (documentary on the Young Lords; directed by Iris Morales)
  • 2006 - Yo Soy Boricua! Pa' Que Tu Lo Sepas! (I'm Boricua, Just So You Know!)

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See also

  • The Last Poets
    The Last Poets
    The Last Poets is a group of poets and musicians who arose from the late 1960s African American civil rights movement's black nationalist thread...

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