Documentary: My Hometown’s Indians (Documental: Los Indios de Mi Pueblo)

7:00 P.M., La Casa, 1230 Fifth Avenue, Ste 458 (bet. 104 & 105 Streets)

Suggested Donation: $5.00

A film about the Mayaguez Indians/Los Indios de Mayaguez, a professional baseball team of the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League (in Spanish LBPPR), founded in 1938.

Based in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, the Indians have won 15 national championships and 2 Caribbean World Series. They are one of four teams remaining from the original six incorporated into the LBPPR. Since their inception, the Mayaguez Indians have launched the Major League careers of numerous island players including, Willie Hernández, José Guzman, Ivan Calderón, Wilfred Cordero, Roberto Hernández, Ivan Rodríguez, Bobby Bonilla, and many more Latino and non-Latino baseball players.

This film is an attempt to preserve the local oral history, forgotten songs and musical traditions associated with the Mayaguez Indians and the region. This documentary is the first ever presented about the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League and its importance to determine behavioral trends within the Puerto Rican community in the United States. Key Project Personnel: Roberto Mercado (researcher, adviser and former bat boy of the Mayaguez Indians during the 80s), Katty Garcia (producer), Emmanuel Díaz (director) and Eduardo Rosado (assistant producer). In Spanish with English subtitles.  A welcoming reception will be conducted, prior to the showing of the film.

Lolita Lebrón stayed faithful to her ideals to the end. An incredible example of courage, strength and love. (Photo Getty Images)

Lolita Lebrón, a Puerto Rican independence activist who spent 25 years in prison for participating in a gun attack on the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954, died Sunday. She was 90.

Lebrón died at a hospital in San Juan of complications from respiratory disease, said Francisco Torres, president of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico.

“Lolita was the mother of the independence movement. This is an insurmountable loss,” said Maria de Lourdes Santiago, a member of the U.S. commonwealth’s Senate from the Puerto Rican Independence Party.

Lolita is an example of the courage, beauty, strength and love of the Puerto Rican woman. May she rest in peace.

A South Bronx Memorial service will be held for Lolita on Sunday August 8th, 2010 at 10:30 AM at La Resurrección United Methodist Church 790 Elton Avenue (corner of 158th St.). The service is open to all who want to attend.

Rest In Peace Lolita on YouTube