Exciting social policy event guest speaker: Nelson Antonio Denis
- As part of the Universidad de la Familia series, please save the date!
- Date: Saturday, October 17th, 2015
- Time: 9:00 – 11:45 am
- Place: LH 151
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- Nelson Antonio Denis is an attorney, writer, film director, and former New York State Assemblyman. From January 1, 1997 to December 31, 2000, he represented New York State’s 68th Assembly district which includes East Harlem and Spanish Harlem. Cuban father, Puerto Rican mother. He will talk about his cultural identity development which is quite interesting.
- Born: June 1, 1955 (age 60), New York City, NY
- Education: Yale Law School, Harvard College, Harvard University
His award-winning films premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and screened throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
His editorials for the New York Daily News and El Diario (over 300 of them) won awards from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
He is the writer of eight feature-length screenplays, writer/director of the feature film Vote For Me!, and author of the book War Against All Puerto Ricans.
Daily News
“Four decades in the making, “War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony,” by author Nelson A. Denis, is a meticulous and riveting account of the decades-long clash between the Puerto Rican independence movement, led by Pedro Albizu Campos, and the commonwealth’s U.S.-appointed stewards, national police force, the FBI and, ultimately, the U.S. Army.
The book covers 50-plus years of Puerto Rico’s history, beginning with the U.S. takeover of the island from Spain in the late-1890s to a bloody revolution that engulfed eight towns in October 1950, during which Nationalist operatives also attempted to assassinate President Harry Truman at the Blair House in Washington, D.C.
“This is not a pretty story,” Denis, a former New York assemblyman, warns in the preface of the book, which hits shelves in April.