![]() And just when I was beginning to think that Puerto Ricans like myself were doomed to watch from the sidelines, a group called the Young Lords protested the lack of garbage pickup in El Barrio by setting the trash on fire, finally getting the attention of New York City officials. It seemed everyone in the late 60s in America was in for a change.īy night I observed the goings-on from my home in the Bronx, and by day with my friends at the High School of Performing Arts. Sesame Street was shot out a of a cannon in 1969, fueled by the social unrest of Black Americans tired of being treated as second-class citizens, young people marching on Washington to protest an unpopular war, farmworkers demanding decent labor conditions-the list of grievances that were being protested went on and on. ![]() Above: Photo by David Attie/Courtesy Macrocosm Entertainment
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