Felipe Luciano

Education

Following his release, he attended Queens College and became a member of the Original Last Poets (with Gylan Kain and David Nelson).

Career

He is of Afro-Puerto Rican heritage. Luciano served time in prison for manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of a Brooklyn teenager in the early 1960s. He co-founded the New York chapter of the Young Lords (later called the Young Lords Party in New York), whose legal counsel was a young Jerry Rivers (now known as Geraldo Rivera) and served as its chairman

The original Young Lords in Chicago developed because their Puerto Rican community was being gentrified.The Young Lords Party in New York City which originated within the Young Lords Movement, reportedly began as a student political movement that later coaleasced with several other New York branches of the Young Lords to form the New York Regional Chapter.

Achievements

• Luciano later became a radio, television, and print journalist, and won several awards. He is President and founder of Luciano Productions, Incorporated.