Felipe Luciano

Felipe Luciano (born c. 1947 in East Harlem, New York City, New York,) is an American poet, community activist, journalist, media personality, and politician. He is of Afro-Puerto Rican heritage.

Luciano served time in prison for manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of a Brooklyn teenager in the early 1960s. Following his release, he attended Queens College and became a member of the Original Last Poets (with Gylan Kain and David Nelson).

He along with five others co-founded the New York branch of the Young Lords (later called the Young Lords Party in New York), whose legal counsel was a young Jerry Rivers (now known as Geraldo Rivera) and served as its chair. The Young Lords as a movement which began in Chicago and spread nationally was founded by Jose Cha Cha Jimenez who transformed it from a gang. It developed because the Puerto Rican community in Chicago was being gentrified.The Young Lords Party in NYC was a branch that originated within the Young Lords Movement,and reportedly began as a primarily student political movement that later coalesce with several other New York branches of these Young Lords to form the New York Regional Chapter of the movement.

Luciano later became a radio, television, and print journalist, and won several awards. He is President and founder of Luciano Productions, Inc.

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