The May 28 edition of So Latin This Jazz featured a special presentation as Lissette Colon, vice president of the Puerto Rican Parade of Fairfield County, interviewed Charles R. Venator-Santiago, the director of Puerto Rican Studies Initiative and El Instituto at the University of Connecticut.
Some of the issues that were explored emphasized women’s rights, equal pay for equal work, equality in academic and developmental opportunities, and the importance of celebrating ethnic pride.
The program not only identified shortfalls in the treatment of the disenfranchised, but discussed specific actions necessary to make things right.