Felipe Luciano

Biography

Felipe Luciano (born 1947, East Harlem, New York City) is a poet, community activist, journalist, media personality, and politician. He is of Afro-Puerto Rican heritage. He is known for his significant involvement in both the Young Lords Party and The Last Poets, and more generally, as "an early and important participant in the awakening of the new consciousness-raising radicalism among Puerto Ricans in New York and across the country in the late 1960s and 1970s." Luciano later became a radio, television, and print journalist.

Known For

It Could Happen to You

as Television Reporter

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

as Self

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

as Self - Young Lords

Badge 373

as Ruben Garcia

Mr. SOUL!

as Self

Right On!

as Himself (member of 'The Original Last Poets')

D'Curse

as Domingo's Uncle

Salty Dog Blues

as Narrator

Universe

Beats of the Heart: Salsa

as Self