Episode 72: From Happy Land to Garifuna Power: A New York Agenda for 2026–2032

Send us Fan Mail Thirty-six years after the devastating Happy Land social club fire claimed eighty-seven lives on Southern Boulevard in the Bronx, host José Francisco Ávila investigates the distance between 1990 and 2026. While the tragedy forced New York City to acknowledge a Honduran and Garifuna community that had already been building here for fifty-eight years, public sympathy never translated into systemic accountability. In this milestone episode, we examine the public record surroundi...