La Fortaleza Community Development Corporation

08/01/2023

In 2022, we were graced with the supportive presence of our local NYC Council representative, Diana Ayala. As with everyone who supports, we feature her comm...

08/01/2023

El Festival del LIbro/Festival of Books is Spanish Harlem's longest and only bilingual literary & literature festival. It has taken place in El Barrio since...

08/01/2023

Below is a promotional & marketing video of Maria Aponte's performance during the 2022 El Festival del Libro/Festival of Books.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGT3c8PKDF8

07/31/2023

El Festival del Libro/Festival of Books welcomes Council District #8 representative, Diana Ayala. Gracias por su apoyo.

In 2022, we were graced with the supportive presence of our local NYC Council representative, Diana Ayala. As with everyone who supports, we feature her comm...

07/31/2023

Below is Maria Aponte's performance during El Festival del Libro/Festival of Books 2022.

El Festival del LIbro/Festival of Books is Spanish Harlem's longest and only bilingual literary & literature festival. It has taken place in El Barrio since...

06/25/2023

Equality has become a one-way, dead end street with two-way traffic.
When abortions are preferred, by people who would never tell you that they would prefer to have been aborted than born & raised in a single-father household, equality is non-existent.

06/06/2023

And he may just be right.

Arnold Schwarzenegger believes anyone who says heaven is real is a 'f**king liar'

06/06/2023

06/06/2023

Males do not give birth. That isn't pateiarchal. It is nature.

Pregnant trans man Logan Brown has become a cover star for UK Glamour magazine’s pride issue.

06/06/2023

Congrats on having been a Single-Father. This year recognize the tens of millions of people raised by or born into a Single-Fsther household proving that Men Are Parents, Too.
Put an end to the double standard of gender prejudice & exclusion. Level the playing field & give men the equal privilege of choice as women have.
Open an inquiry on the insitution of Family/Divorce court and its tenacles which operates on its own self interests and impunity.
I ask that you make a public statement of support who, as Single-Fathers, have been shown to be more successful at raising children through high school than Single-Mothers.
Mr. President, contrary to insider opinion, the institution of Family/Divorce court is a $60 BILLION industry that has cost countless lives & has used children as pawns while enriching itself.
Equality, like justice, has no favorites. It has no "teachers pet" nor does it privilefe anyone ober everyone without proportional reciprocity.

06/06/2023

Few know that the White athlete on the podium is an Aussie who gave John & Tommie the idea of raising their fists.
He paid dearly.
He was exclused from representing his country in future games for having done so. When he past away, both John & Tommie were pallbearers at his funeral.
Well done.

Tommie Smith - June 6, 1944
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

06/06/2023

Mr. BIDEN, Iask that this Father's Day you give a big shoutout of appreciation and gratitude to men, like youself, who are SINGLE-FATHERS.
Represent men as equals to women in reproduction and parenthold putting to rest the stereotype that the privilege of choosing to be parents is exclusive to only women.
Or legalize abortion for both women and men.
Congratulations on your success as a SINGLE-FATHER. You and so many others like you are living proof that abortion doesn't have to be the defacto outcome when women don't want to be mothers to their off-spring.

06/06/2023

The Mexico City games was a historic Olympic game for Black athletes.

Jim Hines, who in 1968 became the first man to sprint 100 meters in under 10 seconds, and later that year won a gold medal in that distance at the Olympic Games in Mexico City with a blistering time of 9.95 seconds, a mark that stood as a world record for 15 years, died on Saturday. He was 76. https://nyti.ms/3MTeJtX

06/06/2023

The Clamperts are in town.

what in the sweet cornbread hell ? 🤪

06/06/2023

Those classez were once called "home economics".

06/06/2023

In "Unforgiven" Eastwood's character is a single-father.

Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven", 1992. It won four Academy Awards in 1993, including Best Picture and Best Director for Clint.

06/06/2023

Don't leave out Walter Scott and Sean LeVert both of whom were killed by police and were non-custodial fathers.

Breonna Taylor
Born: June 5, 1993
Died: March 13 , 2020
Bio: https://bit.ly/3CaVCXy
BlackCelebrityBirthdays.org

06/02/2023

LOL

05/27/2023

And he put the deed in her name.

05/27/2023

Boosie recently went viral after he went off following an employee shorting him on the number of jelly packets they gave him with his meal from McD...

05/21/2023

To have parents, teachers, superintendents, & commisioners of education to commit to one class to attend El Festival del Libro/Festival of Books.
Our e-mail for inquiries: [email protected]

05/20/2023

El Festival del Libro/Festival of Books is ioen to the public and schools so you csn buy a book for yourself, children, friends, neighbor, and family.

05/03/2021

La Fortaleza Community Development Corporation continues to bring people, services, culture, arts, together in special, one of a kind, events. This Mother's Day, May 9th, is our annual HERspanic Achievement OPEN CULTURE Virtual Celebration 20212.
Use our special bar code for the best deals that include, engraved award to the HERspanic of your choice, live music & theater, AMOR CUBANO Brunch, & art.

05/01/2021

Reviewing footage on-location. Shooting in 4K using Sony cam. I am available for shoots big or small.

04/26/2021

This year's HERspanic Achievement OPEN CULTURE Virtual Celebration 2021 helps El Barrio/East Harlem restaurants keep diners' spending in neighborhood. Join use. You can't beat the price.
Este año La Celebración de Los Logros HERspana Virtual OPEN CULTURE ayuda los restaurantes locales del Barrio/East Harlem mantener el dolar turistico en la vecindad. Encuentrese con nosotros. No puede superar la donación.

04/17/2021

LA FONDA BORICUA se une con nosotros para celebrar el Dia deLas Madres este Domingo dia 9 d mayo en l Barrio.

Actuaciones de
SON DEL MONTE charanga)
CAICEDO PRODUCTIONS (theater)
DJ VCTOR Mozco Mix
& sorteo de obras de arte original

04/13/2021

Artwork by Eliezer Berrios. Commemorative & ad posters available.

04/12/2021

Cocina preparada por AMOR CUBANO y LA FONDA BORICUA. Música por SONIDO COSTEÑO. Actuación en vivo por ONE Festival.
$75/pareja (comida, entrada, y premio), $0/persona (comida, entrada), $15 (enlace al transmisión y cartelera). Busquen en GoFundMe y EventBrite para detalles.

04/06/2021

https://youtu.be/dcPeQSt2MWI

inercia/inertia has gotten the best of many. Here is a solution.

Classes, REVIVAL rehearsals!

04/04/2021

https://smile.amazon.com/ch/82-4296082

Your Amazon purchases now help La Fortaleza CDC to help local restaurants, cafes, & caterers in El Barrio/East Harlem recover in a Post-COVID era. Also visit our event pages on GoFundMe & EventBrite for our Mother's Day commemoration details called the HERspanic Achievement OPEN CULTURE Virtual Celebration 2021.
https://www.gofundme.com/manage/herspanic-achievement-celebration-2021

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/herspanic-achievement-open-culture-virtual-celebration-2021-tickets-145773700061
Su compras en Amazon ayuda La Fortaleza CDC ayudar a los restaurantes, cafes, y proveedores en El Barrio/East Harlem recuperar en una epoca Post-COVID.
Visiten nuestras paginas de eventos en GoFundMe y Eventbrite para detalles de nuestra conmemoración del Dia de las Madres, HERspanic Achievement OPEN CULTURE Virtual Celebration 2021.
https://www.gofundme.com/manage/herspanic-achievement-celebration-2021

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/herspanic-achievement-open-culture-virtual-celebration-2021-tickets-145773700061

01/13/2021

Remembering poet, activist, & educator, Louis Reyes Rivera.

11/19/2020

Exemplary of our concept of collaborative community development and maintenance, the IPRHFF was create with Veronica Caicedo, producer of the ONE Festival. The IPRHFF highlights films and videos of all genre where Puerto Ricans are centrally cast as above-the-line personnel or/and the location or subject relates to the island-homeland or its people.

11/19/2020

Chris continues to point our location of local historical and cultural significance in El Barrio/East Harlem. Share your memories of these sites and support local artists AND historians.
https://www.facebook.com/La-Fortaleza-Community-Development-Corporation-373443710049114/?view_public_for=373443710049114

11/19/2020

Many of you have enjoyed an earlier walking tour of El Barrio/East Harlem with Ismael Nunez. We gladly bring you a guide and author of two books on the neighborhood and a few "walk through" following the subject matter of his books, EAST HARLEM REVISITED, IMAGES OF AMERICA EAST HARLEM. Suppor local artists:
https://www.amazon.com/Christopher-Bell/e/B001HD3V7I/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1

10/28/2020

La Fortaleza is very happy to report that the Virtual Festival del Libro will take place on Friday, December 11th beginning at 10:00am.
We'll feature workshops on Hip Hop writing, Financial Literacy, Bilingual Publishing, and more. Panels will be on Poetic Writing, Healthy Meals & Beverages, and others.
Authors will be reading from their books throughout the day. For more on our day's activities send an e mail to [email protected]