Dominican Studies: Sites, Blogs & Reports

Cinema

• Cinema Tropical - This is a New-York Based non-profit media arts organization with the mission of distributing, programming and promoting Latin American cinema. It includes information about Dominican films.
• Dominican Film Festival - "The Dominican Film Festival celebrates the best in Dominican cinema with the goal to enrich the artistic experience of New York's diverse cultural audience."
• Latin American and Spanish Videos Freely Available on the Internet: A Guide to Web Sources - "This guide brings together a selection of web resources that provide access to freely available videos, representing the great variety and diversity of Latin American and Spanish video production on the Internet."
• Pelidom - This platform provides access to Dominican films, series, and documentaries by paid subscription.
• Queer Latine Voices at Teatro Pregones -  "This film explores how a new millennium for queer identity, expression and storytelling took shape in the South Bronx in the early 2000s. It features interviews with award-winning Latine playwrights, artists and activists."

Haitian-Dominican

• Border of Lights - "A group of artists, activists, students, teachers, and parents have come together to breathe life to a tragedy [1937 Haitian Genocide] long forgotten, for some, a tragedy they never knew took place."
• Dominicans Love Haitians Movement, Inc. - is an arts-based non-profit celebrating the beauty of our commonality to forge a future free from tyranny. Using various art modalities as a vehicle to heal from colonialism.
• In Cultured Company - This organization's mission is to "sow the seeds of peace, conflict resolution, reconciliation, collaboration, healing and dialog in young black and Latinx leaders in order to move from a divided past towards a shared future." It provides services to the Haitian-Dominican communities. 
• Reconoci.do - (This link goes to their Facebook page). "A movement that campaigns for citizenship rights and equality for all Dominicans of Haitian descent, mobilizes and empowers marginalised communities, and accompanies people who need legal support to access their documents."
• We Are All Dominican - "This is a collective of students, educators, scholars, artists, activists, and community members of Dominican and Haitian descent residing in New York City [...] formed in October 2013 in the aftermath of a decision by the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal to revoke the citizenship of Dominicans born to undocumented immigrant parents, the vast majority of whom are of Haitian origin." 
• Nos Cambió la Vida | Our Lives Transformed - "This is a digital edition of short autobiographical narratives written by Dominican writers of Haitian descent that have been translated into English." 

Literature

• Cielo Naranja - This website contains information on Dominican literature, social issues, and culture in general. It provides digital access to Dominican contemporary and historical texts.
• Dominican Writers Association - is a platform dedicated to supporting and promoting the works by creative writers of Dominican descent in the genres of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
• Proyecto Anticanon - is a Dominican feminist literary initiative and research-action project that challenges patriarchal and exclusionary literary norms by promoting the visibility, values, and critical appreciation of literature written by women, especially from the Caribbean.

Online Magazines

• ESENDOM - "This website is a bilingual cultural magazine that blends the beauty of Dominican culture with current and past social issues that affect the Dominican community today, examining these areas of concern and putting them into perspective."
• Spanglish Voces - "It provides a platform for emerging and established writers and artists in need of a space to express their voices." The site features Dominican writers and content.

Traditional Healing & Wellness

• The Healers Project - This project features interviews with women healers in rural and urban communities in the Dominican Republic, the Pacific Northwest, Cuba and Puerto Rico.

Travel

• Dominican Abroad - This platform includes information about travel, culture, and lifestyle guides, as well as community social projects in the Caribbean created by Gerry Isabelle, a Dominican American blogger from New York City. Their the hosts of the Dominican Heritage Tour. 
• Afrohistoria RD - Project aimed to promote Black History through immersive and educational experiences. A project led by Ruth Pion Vizcaino a social researcher, anthropologist and activist. 

Social Movements

• Transnational Dominican Activism: Documenting Grassroots Social Movements through ESENDOM- is a culmination of the work by photographers, writers, artists, and activists who have captured transnational Dominican activism between 2009 and 2020. This exhibit provides a glimpse into one aspect of Dominican culture as documented by ESENDOM’s team of collaborators including Amaury Rodríguez, John Carrero, Lorena Espinoza Peña, Emmanuel Espinal, and Nelson Santana.
• Son Irremplazables - is a group of community members in the Dominican Republic concerned about the root causes of disappearances in the country. Their mission is to raise public awareness about social insecurity and to mobilize support for this issue. 

Art

• Artístico RD - An art community created to advance the arts in the Dominican Republic and expand public access through curated programming and the development of archives, in collaboration with the Dominican artistic community.

• Onto - is an independent, artist-led Dominican art publication and blog, launched in 2015 by a collective based in Santo Domingo with satellite collaborators in New York, that fosters critical dialogue and network-building by addressing the lack of specialized spaces and texts in the local art scene, while engaging both national and international cultural actors.

• Taller Público Silvano Lora - a cultural center founded by the artist and activist Silvano Lora, dedicated to keeping his dream and ideological legacy alive and active. Lora (1931–2003) was a Dominican painter, sculptor, and performance artist whose work merged art and activism to challenge social inequality, promote cultural access, and advocate for decolonial and community-centered artistic practices.

Gastronomy

• Cocina Dominicana/Dominican Cooking - "This award-winning blog is devoted to sharing a collection of traditional Dominican and Dominican-inspired recipes, home ideas, and crafts." 

Genealogy

• Sambumbia - Dominican-Caribbean Genetics and Genealogy - This blog is written by Gerald Alexander López Castellanos, who  has been avidly researching his own family history through genealogy, genetics, and oral history.

• Introduction to Dominican Republic Genealogy - This is a New York Public Library research guide written by former Library page Jasmin Rymer. It shares resources for genealogy research related to individuals from the Dominican Republic.

Library

• Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (BNPHU) - This section of their site provides information on acquisitions, events and bibliographical news at the BNPHU Library in the Dominican Republic.

Literature

• 100 Años de Hilma Contreras - This blog by the Department of Social Communication at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), is dedicated to the work of Dominican writer Hilma Contreras.

• Boletín literario de Tragalibros RD - This is the literary newsletter of the online platform Tragalibros RD, featuring book reviews and recommendations, along with updates on the latest releases in both Dominican and world literature.

• Buena Lectura - News and literary criticism of Dominican authors and others.

• Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana is the Latin American Writers Institute’s multilingual journal devoted to showcasing and disseminating contemporary literature by Latin American, Caribbean, U.S. Latina/o, and Ibero-American writers in Spanish, English, and other languages.

Music

• Academia de Bachata - is the world’s only school for bachata music, the academy supports more than 500 boys and girls with a free, intensive program on bachata, a popular Dominican music genre with lack of educational resources.

• ¡ASO Records- is a record label that produced LIVE recordings, concerts, videos, and articles on music which includes Dominican genres. 

• "10 Preguntas" is a YouTube channel created by Dominican musician Junior Cabrera where he interviews personalities of Dominican merengue and popular music.  

• Discolai- is an online music magazine based on the alternative music scene in the Dominican Republic. 

• El Rincon de Ismael Hernandez Guerrero - This is a blog by Dominican record collector and musicologist Ismael Hernández Guerrero who shares information on the music and culture from the Dominican Republic. 

• Música Maestro Radio- is an online radio station operating out of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Medellín, Colombia, featuring producers and programmers from various cities and showcasing Caribbean, Latin American, and jazz music.

• La Música y Rossy- This blog is by Dominican musicologist Rossy Díaz who shares her perspectives on music utilizing the country's musical diversity as one of many reference points. 

• Jazz en Dominicana - This blog is dedicated to promoting the talents of the jazz genre in the Dominican Republic and abroad.

• Juan Colón Music - This blog is by Dominican saxophonist Juan Colón who provides a window to value and respect the Dominican musical talents and creations from the Dominican Republic.

• Palos drumming of the Dominican Republic - is a collection of articles by Dr. Martha Ellen Davis on Laméca that discusses Afro-Dominican folk religion and its associated music, particulary the use of the long-drum instrument known as palos. 

• Típico Head - is a YouTube channel established in the year 2015 in the city of New York, initially focusing on the "Merengue Típico" genre. Since 2024, it has expanded its brand to other areas. However, it still provides current information to fans of the music and publicity for típico musicians. 

• Sociedad Dominicana de Estudios de la Música - This blog is an online archive of information about the study of music in the Dominican Republic. 

Radio

• Bao Radio- Bao Radio with Micaela Tolentino and Rubén Lamarche is a radio program based in the Dominican Republic and New York City in partnership with MNN (Manhattan Neighborhood Network). The program discusses various topics, including culture, the arts, and current events. The show is known for its engaging dialogue and insightful commentary, which leverage its hosts' unique perspectives and expertise.

Podcast

• Bocona: All Things Dominican- This podcast, hosted by Dr. Luanna Ferreira, amplifies, uplifts, centers, and empowers Dominican voices.

• La Quincena Podcast- This podcast hosted by Osaliki Sepúlveda, Agar García, and Yolanny Rodríguez where every other week, they discuss topics related to society, Dominican culture, spirituality, sports, and everyday life as they experience it from their our own perspectives.

• Rocio and Mercedes- This podcast is hosted by two Afro-Dominican artists on a journey of self-discovery and embracing their African heritage. Their platform explores topics such as hair, history, immigration, colorism, body image, Caribbean culture in the arts, and more.

• Tambora Dialogues- "Tambora Dialogues is a podcast created by three Latine activists representing Colombia, Puerto Rico, and Republica Dominicana, to honor our rich Latine history and renativize ourselves by decolonizing all aspects of our lives. We invite guests to join our Drum Circle every two weeks and engage in honest talk that reconnects our community with our ancestral values and with each other."

• The Latin Experience with Osaliki - this podcast, hosted by Osaliki Sepúlveda, explores Latino culture, identity, music, and real stories that shape our communities.