About

EricaG is a Brooklyn-raised, El Barrio-living journalist who prefers straight talk. She doesn’t like the following phrases: inner city — giving back — up-and-coming neighborhood. Or sea change.

So use them them at your own risk on this blog.

See me comment on…

• Sonia Sotomayor on CNN

• workers’ strike in Puerto Rico on Grit TV with Laura Flanders

• shifting demographics in New York City on CUNY TV