America ReFramed

La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered | WE EXIST

Lilo Gonzalez, a singer-songwriter & educator, and Roland Roebuck, an Afro Puerto Rican activist, talk openly about the uprising - from representation to policing of the Brown and Black community - in Washington, D.C.'s neighborhood of Mount Pleasant.

La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered | WE EXIST

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