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It’s a place built on the idea that people deserve a second chance, a Bronx spot for potential losers to become winners, a school for dropouts to drop back in.

For Herminio Martinez, it all goes back to his youth. Helping young people pursue an education is his way of repaying the favor he received when he was a 14-year-old Cuban refugee struggling to learn the English language and enroll in a public New York middle school.

MIGUEL PÉREZ : COVERING ALL BASES Award-Winning Journalist Goes to Bat as Educator In the Shadow of Yankee Stadium by ULISES GONZALES Bronx Journal Staff Writer Originally published December 2006  When Miguel Pérez was a boy, romping around the Cuban countryside, he always wore a New York Yankees baseball cap. At the age of 10, in his hometown of La Salud, in the province of La Habana, Pérez wanted to

by Mara Palermo Bronx Journal Staff Writer Originally published December 2006 La vittoria dei democratici nelle elezioni del sette novembre è il trionfo di Nancy Pelosi, la deputata italo-americana che diventa la prima donna Speaker della House of Representatives. Per la donna e per la rappresentante politica, i circa di 26 milioni di italo-americani applaudono la storica ascesa di Nancy Pelosi quale

Whereas a decade ago spas were thought of as a luxury for the rich, today they are seen as places where needed stress relief therapies are administered to people across the socio-economic spectrum.