Puerto Rican Cultural Center http://prcc-chgo.org "Live and Help to Live" Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:22:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Three Kings Day 2012 Parade and Toy Giveaway! http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/12/three-kings-day-2012-parade-and-toy-giveaway/ http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/12/three-kings-day-2012-parade-and-toy-giveaway/#comments Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:45:02 +0000 admin http://prcc-chgo.org/?p=1397 Paseo Boricua/Humboldt park
18th Annual Three Kings Day
Winter Festival & Parade!

Starts at 3:00pm, Roberto Clemente HS
(Athletic Building) 1147 N. Western Ave

Friday, Jan 6, 2012
viernes, 6 de enero 2012

Toys given to kids ages 0-12!
Free event for the whole family!
All children must register in order to receive a gift.

]]> http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/12/three-kings-day-2012-parade-and-toy-giveaway/feed/ 1 Concurso Paseo Boricua http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/el-concurso-paseo-boricua/ http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/el-concurso-paseo-boricua/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 23:12:55 +0000 admin http://prcc-chgo.org/?p=1379 El Concurso Paseo Boricua Presenta La Coronación De Las Reinas Cacica 2011 Yara Sofia & Alexis Mateo

]]> http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/el-concurso-paseo-boricua/feed/ 0 Paseo Boricua Pageant http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/the-paseo-boricua-pageant/ http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/the-paseo-boricua-pageant/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 22:41:18 +0000 admin http://prcc-chgo.org/?p=1364 The Paseo Boricua Pageant Presents The Coronation Of The Cacica Queens Alexis Mateo & Yara Sofia

]]> http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/the-paseo-boricua-pageant/feed/ 0 “Retire Ronald McDonald” Press Conference Hosted by Block by Block, 5-18-2011 http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/retire-ronald-mcdonald-press-conference-hosted-by-block-by-block-5-18-2011/ http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/retire-ronald-mcdonald-press-conference-hosted-by-block-by-block-5-18-2011/#comments Sat, 21 May 2011 21:01:13 +0000 admin http://prcc-chgo.org/?p=1360 CHICAGO – On Wednesday 5-18, more than 550 health institutions and professionals from all 50 states challenged McDonald’s to stop marketing junk food to kids with full-page ads and events in cities across the country. The press conference was hosted by Block by Block, a diabetes information and prevention center that has partnered with the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Humboldt Park, a Puerto Rican/Latino neighborhood on the northwest side of the city.

“Today, our family practice offices, pediatric clinics, and emergency rooms are filled with children suffering from conditions related to the food they eat. These health problems will likely play out over their lifetime through early onset of diabetes, heart disease and arthritis.” said Dr. Steven K. Rothschild, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at Rush Medical College. “Through this initiative the public health community is rallying behind a simple message to McDonald’s: stop making the next generation sick – retire Ronald and the rest of your junk food marketing to kids.”

A range of leading health institutions from the Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry have endorsed the letter featured in today’s ads.

]]> http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/retire-ronald-mcdonald-press-conference-hosted-by-block-by-block-5-18-2011/feed/ 0 Three Kings 2007-Sun-Times clipping http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/three-kings-2007-sun-times-clipping/ http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/three-kings-2007-sun-times-clipping/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 04:24:40 +0000 admin http://prcc-chgo.org/?p=1353 Download the clippings here and here.

]]> http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/three-kings-2007-sun-times-clipping/feed/ 0 Three Kings Day 2007-Hoy Newspaper clipping http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/three-kings-day-2007-hoy-newspaper-clipping/ http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/three-kings-day-2007-hoy-newspaper-clipping/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 04:16:22 +0000 admin http://prcc-chgo.org/?p=1349 Download the article here.

]]> http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/three-kings-day-2007-hoy-newspaper-clipping/feed/ 0 UIC School of Public Health Graduate co-teaches Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School class http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/uic-school-of-public-health-graduate-co-teaches-dr-pedro-albizu-campos-high-school-class/ http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/uic-school-of-public-health-graduate-co-teaches-dr-pedro-albizu-campos-high-school-class/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 04:07:00 +0000 admin http://prcc-chgo.org/?p=1345 The presentation below is Jenny Byelick’s UIC School of Public Health Capstone project for her Master of Public Health degree, relating the introductory public health course she co-taught at Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School as part of a comprehensive public health curriculum.  Public health curricula at the high school level can be a vehicle for addressing health disparities and improving health outcomes among adolescents, particularly in socially marginalized communities. Public health curricula may address health disparities and contribute to the composition of the future health professions workforce; this is especially relevant when high school education programs are linked to career pipelines that Albizu Campos HS is a part of. This presentation addresses how a school course encompassed aspects of population wellness utilizing social constructionist methods of education. The course was developed adhering to a theoretical framework influenced by principles of positive youth development, critical race theory and school connectedness. This presentation also discusses lessons learned and future directions of the public health curriculum in Humboldt Park. Next steps include improving and evaluating the public health curriculum and career-linked pipeline and connecting this program with other area schools.
Congratulations Jenny on your graduation last week!
Presentation j byelick
]]> http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/uic-school-of-public-health-graduate-co-teaches-dr-pedro-albizu-campos-high-school-class/feed/ 0 Mapping Paseo Boricua’s Public Health Assets-Partnership with DePaul University http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/mapping-paseo-boricuas-public-health-assets-partnership-with-depaul-university/ http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/mapping-paseo-boricuas-public-health-assets-partnership-with-depaul-university/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 03:52:59 +0000 admin http://prcc-chgo.org/?p=1341 This past fall, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center partnered with Dr. Sungsoon (Julie) Hwang’s GEO242: GISII class at DePaul University to continue the ongoing project of mapping Paseo Boricua’s Public Health assets. Chad Stutsman, Kaitlin Beer and Edward Kulack worked together with Alejandro Luis Molina, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center’s Board Secretary, to produce the following project. Download their class project here.

]]> http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/mapping-paseo-boricuas-public-health-assets-partnership-with-depaul-university/feed/ 0 Congratulations Chaebong! http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/congratulations-chaebong/ http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/congratulations-chaebong/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 16:15:07 +0000 admin http://prcc-chgo.org/?p=1335 Congratulations to Chaebong Nam on successfully defending her doctoral dissertation titled: “Exploring Local Civic Citizenship Surrounding the “¡Huntington Park NO SE VENDE!” Campaign in Paseo Boricua, Chicago.” The committee members were Sue Noffke (Chair), Marilyn Johnston-Parsons, Michael Peters, Ann Bishop, and Chip Bruce. Thank you also to ¡Humboldt Park No Se Vende! mentors Xavier Luis Burgos, Juanita Garcia, Victor Benitez, Adriana Rodríguez and Michael Rodríguez. Check back soon to be able to download!

]]> http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/congratulations-chaebong/feed/ 0 After all, I am a Big Girl http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/after-all-i-am-a-big-girl/ http://prcc-chgo.org/2011/05/after-all-i-am-a-big-girl/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 16:07:50 +0000 admin http://prcc-chgo.org/?p=1330 The famous poem by the Queen of HP, Janeida Rivera. Janeida blogs at queenofhp.com. Download the poem here.

Walking down my streets
I‚m usually too busy on my cell phone
To notice anything unusual
Starbucks and an antique boutique, what’s new?
As I pass the second sunshine tanning salon and the sushi surplus
I can‚t seem to put my finger on it just yet
I see a bench and since I have walked a couple of blocks
And after all I am a big girl
I decide to sit

And then it hits me and it hits me hard this epiphany:
The chances of us stopping this genocide to stomp out my boriqua pride
Is as likely as me doing a summersault and landing into a split
Where Lorenzo used to sell his alcapurias for seventy five cents is now quite concrete and cold
You see before, before it had this afro-carribe, salsa, meringue, adobo, soul

I‚m just repulsed and sickened by these lively home turned into morbid houses, condos, and what exactly is a Venetian complex?
Is it because I don‚t look like a banana threw up on my head?
Is it because I don‚t frequent the neighborhood hookah bar?
How about you take the fact that I won‚t allow for you to turn Humboldt into a dog park
Or Roberto Clemente High School into a windsor pilates studio
That‚ll offer spinning classes, yoga, and not to mention step aerobics
And stuff that in your hookah pipe and smoke it

Ill eat rice and beans
Right off banana leaves
Not caring to be labeled that pork chop queen
Now my heart skips a beat
And my internal bombazo replicates
This 93.9, lite rock, sellout pop, umbop badubadopba dubop beat
It‚s a little harder to breath
I guess ill pay for a hit of tranquility
Don‚t they sell that at the oxygen spot up the block?

I stand up
Keep walking
Paying more attention
I‚m hungry
Not only for change
Because after all I am a big girl
Baccalao and vianda mouth watering
Sentimanna café, Leticia‚s organic bakery, flying saucer∑wait
How is it that with all these Abuelas and Tias around here there isn‚t one place in sight anymore
That I can get a decent mixta or sazon seasoned chicken thigh
Can I at least get a large bustello?
“Bustello, that sounds hip man
Where can i get some of that?
Is it French man?”

You can‚t have it you poser its mine!
My best friend Ziggys dreads there his
My brother owns his Sean jean and timbs
What‚s next a mini cooper sittin’ on twenty inch rims
Blastin’ “La Tierra de Borinquen”
Middle eastern themes Arabian dreams
Don‚t fake being Japanese just to feed me please
No G A P or banana republican jeans
Would you listen as closely to me
„Eef I talk like dees‰?
Or push me out of the way because I have empty pockets
My pockets
They may be empty, but my souls definitely
Not
It‚s not hollow like that of a yuppies beat nick spot
It‚s not hollow like my parents hearts that refused to teach me espanol
And who allowed for the media to take control
And make them typical
100 % all American
I just haven‚t forgotten I‚m part Taino Indian and African
I just have not forgotten that I am part Taino Indian and African
I will; not for get that I am part Taino Indian and African
And I‚m also a big girl

-Janeida Rivera

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