Second-grade class photo of Mariposa Fernández class at Immaculate Conception School, located at 760 East Gun Hill Road. Mariposa is in third row from bottom at the far right. Her twin sister is on the same row, third from left.
Photograph of Mariposa Fernández posing with twin sister Melissa Isabel Fernández ("melleSOL") in front of father's Chevrolet Reliant, after Mariposa's first poem, "Ode to the Nuyorican," was published in New York Newsday.
In this recording, part of a larger video memoir project, lifetime activist and educator Suzanne Ross narrates her family's background. Her father was born to a poor religious Jewish family in Nuremberg, Germany that had migrated from Poland. His…
Photograph of Ntozake Shange as a boxer, photographed by Adál Maldonado in 1993 and dedicated to Mariposa Fernández on the occasion of her wedding to herself on August 11, 2001. Among attendees was actress Rosie Perez. Retouched digitally…
Recording of Poetas Pa' Vieques, an event held on June 13, 2000, organized by Bronx poets Mariposa and her twin sister MelleSoul and held at Café Largo, 3387 Broadway. The event was in support of the liberation struggles of the Puerto…
Screenshot of email by Dr. Mark Naison of Fordham University reflecting on oral history with Dr. Candice Scott, member of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., recorded for the Bronx African American History Project in 2020.
Screenshot of oral history of Dr. Candice Scott, member of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., recorded for the Bronx African American History Project in 2020.