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Podcast: Hella Latin@
Episode: The Nuyorican Experience
Description: Nestor Melendez is a proud Nuyorican/Boricua, born and raised in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Knights podcast co-host is part jack-of-all-trades, part philosophizer, part rebel, and a professional educator who is focused on having conversations that remind people of who they were, who they are and who they could become. In this episode, Nes gives us a little history lesson on Puerto Rico and its relationship with the U.S. and its Caribbean neighbors, and he ends with what identity/Latinidad truly encapsulates. At the end, he also gives us a much-needed bendición.Connect with Nes on I...