Felipe Luciano (born ca. 1948, New York City) is an American poet, community activist, journalist, media personality, and politician. He is of Puerto Rican heritage.[1]
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 co-founded the Young Lords (also called the Young Lords Party) in the 1960s and served as its chair. Although the Young Lords in Chicago began as a gang before they became politicized, the Young Lords Party in NYC reportedly began as a political 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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