Rachel Iacovone
Puerto Rican Communities ReporterRachel Iacovone (ee-AH-koh-VOAN-ay) is a proud puertorrique帽a, who joined 黑料吃瓜网 to report on her community in the Constitution State. Her work is in collaboration with Somos CT, a 黑料吃瓜网 initiative to elevate Latino stories and expand programming that uplifts and informs our Latino communities, and with GFR in Puerto Rico.
A Florida native, Rachel began her public radio career covering politics in the fraught state 鈥� from Gov. Ron DeSantis' first gubernatorial run to labor rights issues in the farmworking town, Immokalee, for WGCU Public Media. She then headed to Tennessee in 2019, as first a host and later editor and director at Nashville Public Radio, where she spent six years covering everything from the COVID-19 pandemic to racial justice protests in a city that once hosted some of the first lunch counter sit-ins to deadly tornadoes, the Christmas Day bombing and the Covenant School shooting.
Before all that, she was a food writer in college and never really left that lens behind. She's excited to eat her way through the 黑料吃瓜网 food scene, so please, send recs (and serious story pitches) to her anytime here: riacovone@ctpublic.org.
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A rising junior at Wilbur Cross High School was recently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement while working at a car wash in New Haven. Esdras R. played in the orchestra, and he advocated for health care for all, regardless of immigration status. -
El 14潞 Festival Anual de Salsa y Jazz de Ram贸n Santiago contin煤a con un cartel de nombres reconocidos y locales del g茅nero. -
Los pasantes de la Comisi贸n de Derechos Humanos y Oportunidades eligieron inmigraci贸n, desplazamiento y justicia como tema de este a帽o dado el aumento de las detenciones de ICE en el estado. -
Interns at the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities chose immigration, displacement and justice as this year鈥檚 theme given the rise in ICE detainments in the state.
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The 14th annual Ramon Santiago鈥檚 Salsa Meets Jazz Festival continues with a lineup of both large and local names in the genre.
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El profesor del nuevo curso sobre Bad Bunny de la Universidad de Yale analiza la pol铆tica del artista puertorrique帽o en estos tiempos especialmente dif铆ciles para los latinos en el territorio continental de Estados Unidos. -
El copropietario de V铆a L谩ctea explica qu茅 lo atrajo al helado de origen vegetal y a 黑料吃瓜网. -
From Yale鈥檚 ivory tower to the Statue of Liberty, Bad Bunny puts Puerto Rico, politics on the agendaThe professor of Yale University鈥檚 new Bad Bunny course breaks down the politics of the Puerto Rican artist in these especially fraught times for Latinos on the U.S. mainland.
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The co-owner of V铆a L谩ctea explains what drew him to plant-based ice cream 鈥撯�� and 黑料吃瓜网.
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Grupos de activistas locales est谩n protestando por las recientes detenciones de inmigrantes en Meriden, Southington y New Haven.
