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On a bustling Friday morning, the aroma of rice and beans wafts through a cloud of hairspray in Romy’s Beauty Salon in Meriden. Merengue...
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Community
The Dominican community of Meriden celebrated Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia — Our Lady of Altagracia — the “protector of the Dominican people” earlier this month...
La Vida Baseball
The Minnesota Twins’ Nelson Cruz, a Dominican Republic native, became a naturalized U.S. citizen last October. Cruz proudly shared the news in an Instagram...
Crime
Ortiz was at a bar in Santo Domingo when a gunman approached from behind and shot him at close range
CT Opinion
Daniel José Older BuzzFeed Contributor As the Dominican Republic begins what has been called a “vicious, slow-motion pogrom” on black Dominicans and Dominicans of Haitian descent...
CT Lifestyle
Among the immigrants who earn the least money in the United States, Dominicans are those who send the largest percentage of their earnings back...
CT Lifestyle
Introduced in the 1950s, pinup girls have become an icon of Americana. More than half a century later, women from the Dominican Republic have...
C-HIT
A patch of dirt in the northwest corner of their back yard, bounded by a chain link fence, a stone wall and a garage...
Democracy
CT Latino News produces and amplifies stories focused on the responses to the social determinants of health. A key social determinant, work directly impacts...