Jack Agüeros, a Champion of El Barrio, Dies at 79

*If you don’t know who Jack Agüeros was, take some time to find out. He was a fierce activist and wonderful poet. He fought for NYC barrios with his actions and his words. VL

By David Gonzalez, New York Times

Jack Agüeros was an activist. The term is concise, like his many sonnets, but it hardly captures the expanse of his life, which saw him go from a childhood in East Harlem to defending its Puerto Rican people as an antipoverty official, celebrating its culture by expanding and moving El Museo del Barrio, and memorializing its greatest poet by translating the complete works of Julia de Burgos.

Like many Puerto Rican strivers who came of age in New York City a half-century ago, he had little choice but to deploy his talent on multiple fronts.

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