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“It is beyond anybody’s imagination when I started that a Puerto Rican could ascend to that position, to the Supreme Court,” said Edwin Torres, who in 1959 was hired as the first Puerto Rican assistant district attorney in New York

In the summer of 1959, Edwin Torres landed a $60-a-week job and wound up on the front page of El Diario. He had just been hired as the first Puerto Rican assistant district attorney in New York — and probably, he thinks, the entire United States.

He still recalls the headline: “Exemplary Son of El Barrio Becomes Prosecutor.”

“You would’ve thought I had been named attorney general,” he said. “That’s how big it was.” Read more..

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  Sotomayor was nominated on May 26 to replace David Souter She has rounded the bases and will now be playing in the big leagues.

Roughly 50 years ago Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the daughter of Puerto Rican parents, was growing up in a public housing project in the South Bronx not far from the old stadium of her favorite team: the New York Yankees. Since then she has gone on to graduate summa cum laude from Princeton and then attend Yale law school. Now, after a three-decade career that saw her work at almost every level of the judicial system, her journey has arguably reached its climax.

By a senate vote of 68-31 Sotomayor became the U.S. Supreme Court’s 111th justice, as well as its first Latina and third female member. Read more..

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Muhammad Ali is back in the Bronx.

Ali received a warm welcome when he was honored before the New York Yankees’ game against the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night.

The boxing great pointed and waved to the crowd as he rode along the warning track in a golf cart. The cheers grew louder as he approached home plate and the crowd chanted “Ali! Ali!”

Shortstop Derek Jeter gave the former heavyweight champion a Yankees hat before the entire New York dugout emptied out for a picture behind home plate.

Ali fought across the street at the old Yankee Stadium in 1976, beating Ken Norton in a 15-round unanimous decision. His adopted son, Asaad Ali, is a catching prospect who was drafted by the Angels in the 40th round of the June draft. Read more..

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