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There are many strong women in New York City. This is true in all our communities.

Few forces change the world so much as education and the empowerment of women.”

Nicholas Kristof, “This Has Been the Best Year Ever,” New York Times, 2019

Women Festivals in NYC

Women of New York City

Nydia Velázquez

U.S. Representative NY District 7. First Latina on the New York City Council and first Puerto Rican woman in U.S. Congress. MANHATTAN Lower East Side, East Village BROOKLYN Brooklyn Heights, Bushwick, Carroll Gardens, Greenpoint, Red Hook, Williamsburg QUEENS Maspeth, Ridgewood, Woodside

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Anna Tonna

December 4, 2012 HISPANIC SOCIETY Washington Heights, NYC The opera singer sang Spanish boleros for the Duchess of Alba (Goya) a lady of Spain, who watched coyly without saying a word -¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!

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Women of the World

Rosalía

Sunday, January 26, 2020 62nd GRAMMY AWARDS Los Angeles, California The Spanish flamenco pop singer performed and “El Mal Querer” won Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album

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Nella Rojas

Monday, October 21, 2019 WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE LE POISSON ROUGE Greenwich Village, NYC – Venezuela, Berklee, Limón, IMG, and “Everybody Knows.” The 2019 Latin Grammy winner for Best New Artist is on her way…”Voy, Voy, Voy” –Sponsored byWorld Music Institute

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Lila Downs

Sunday, August 11, 2019 CENTRAL PARK, NYC ~ The multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy-winning, Mexican-American folkloric pop singer who is a champion of Indigenous rights, brings ‘Al Chile’ to SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield. FREE

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Laura Pausini

November 15, 2018 ~ “Hazte Sentir” wins “Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album” Latin Grammy ~ August 31, 2018 Radio City Music Hall Midtown, Manhattan ~ March 16, 2018 ‘Fatti sentire | Hazte sentir’ album

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Angelita Montoya

Friday, March 16, 2018 FLAMENCO FESTIVAL ROULETTE Boerum Hill, Brooklyn From one of the great Spanish flamenco families, she built this show around the female poets of the Generation of 27 -¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!

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Nona

TV ON DEMAND; Tue, Mar 19, 2019; Honduran movies ~ Nona (Sulem Calderon) trusts Hecho (Jesy MCKinney) to take her to her mother in America, but gets trafficked instead. The film launched first-time actress Calderon on the road to stardom, and it’s more than a movie. It’s a story that needs to be told and…

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Women’s Contributions Are Essential

Women's NYC (© Rawpixel/Dreamstime)
Women’s NYC (© Rawpixel/Dreamstime)

Women are about 50% of human kind. The economy feels good when it goes up 1 or 2%. The economy feels bad when it goes down 1 or 2%. You can’t succeed in modern life by marginalizing 50% of your people.

Many Latin cultures are very machista (male chauvinist). That doesn’t work in the United States and it doesn’t really work anywhere. It’s time to grow up.

A world map of countries suffering from war and poverty correlates strongly with a map of countries that marginalize women.

Women play an especially important role in raising and teaching children. Building a good future for women, builds a good future for all of us.

Ethel Waters, You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down

Ethel Waters (1929) was the first African-American woman on Broadway (© Everett Collection/Adobe)
Ethel Waters (1929) was the first African-American woman on Broadway (© Everett Collection/Adobe)

Ethel Waters (1917-1977) was one of those never-ending talents who had a most amazing career. She started working as a teenager singing the blues in the 1920s. She sang for Black Swan records in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance. Fletcher Henderson was her accompanist. Waters was the highest-paid Black recording artist of the time.

She recorded for Paramount and Columbia. She did vaudeville which was the MTV or YouTube of the day. She made movies. She starred at the Cotton Club.

Waters became the first Black woman on Broadway in the 1930s. She became the highest-paid Broadway performer. She was nominated for an Academy Award for a song.

In 1939 Waters became the first African-American to star in her own television show. In 1949, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. In 1950 she won a New York Drama Critics Circle Award and also became the first African-American actress to star in her own series.

No doubt the work was hard. We are just now trying to deal with systemic racism. See how hard it is? Imagine how tough it was back then.

But Ethel Waters’ indomitable spirit just goes to show you that you can’t keep a good woman down.

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