Reverend Ruben Diaz Sr. (with microphone) endorsed Hipolito Mejio (seated) for the presidency of the Dominican Republic, in the basement of Templo Roca Eterna church on Southern Boulevard in Longwood, during a gathering of Latino Evangelical Ministers on April 4th. Diaz Sr. told the hundred-plus crowd that the candidate’s stances [...]
There will be a new face in local politics if the new district lines released on Jan. 26 by a committee of legislators take effect. Instead of being represented in the state senate by Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr., most of the Hunts Point peninsula would be attached to a district [...]
State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. denounced the Bloomberg administration’s plan to revive mandatory sex education in public schools, saying the proposal violated the right of parents to decide what and how to teach their children. “In matters involving intimacy and human sexuality, parents have the right and the responsibility to [...]
New York became just the sixth state in the country to legalize same-sex marriage, when the state senate passed a bill in June approving the measure. 33 state senators cast votes supporting the hotly debated measure while 29 opposed it. The measure met with strikingly different reactions from two elected [...]
By Joe Hirsch news@huntspointexpress.com A museum dedicated to Latinos in the United States has been in the pipeline in the nation’s capital for several years, but at least one Latino lawmaker from the Bronx is unhappy. State Senator Rubén Díaz Sr. is concerned that Puerto Ricans and New Yorkers are [...]