OLA in the News

By Minerva Perez Four hours a night, once a week for 12 weeks. No, I was not binge watching bad TV. I was taking part in a reinstated...

The Inn at East Hampton will undergo renovations and become a hotel, according to its owners, who have evicted several immigrant families...

Credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara Lucius Ware of the Eastern Long Island branch of the NAACP delivers one of the recomendations put...

Steven Troyd, who will soon take over the new Southampton Town department of public safety and emergency preparedness. Credit: FBI An FBI...

By Christine Sampson A pair of upcoming events aimed at empowering young women to achieve their fullest potential will bring quite a few...

By Emily Weitz A near capacity crowd flooded the Bridgehampton Community House Friday night to stand with the immigrant community of the...

By Beth Young If you’ve attended any public meeting on the South Fork in the past couple months, chances are that Minerva Perez,...

By Stephen J. Kotz A large crowd was beyond standing-room-only during a Immigration and Civil Rights Free Community Forum that was hosted...

By Beth Young East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, the son of immigrants who was raised in East Hampton, pledged Thursday night...

By Joanne Pilgrim Minerva Perez of Organizacion Latino Americana asked the East Hampton Town Board on Thursday to maintain separation...

By Michael Wright In a week when immigrant advocacy groups staged protests around the region against President Donald Trump’s efforts to...

By Christopher Walsh Police chief seeks to reassure anxious residents President Donald Trump’s pledge to deport undocumented immigrants...

By GLYN VINCENT ON SUNDAYS, at a baseball field in Amagansett in the late 1980s, Oswaldo Palomo bided his time on the bench waiting for a...

By Anisah Abdullah and Eric Schmid The Organización Latino-Americano (OLA) of Eastern Long Island hosted its 13th Annual Latino Film...

By Nancy Kane The OLA Latino Film Festival turns up the heat in its 13th year of providing cultural diversity awareness through films on...

The Organización Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island (OLA) will be screen independent Spanish language films with English subtitles...

By Jon Winkler Town officials will hold a community meeting later this month on tenants rights and civil and criminal issues in the...

By Jean-Paul Salamanca Southampton Town Police and an East End nonprofit are teaming up to resurrect a program to help promote...

By Jen Newman The Southampton Town Police Department will bring back its Civilian Police Academy training program next year—and a local...

With grant to help, OLA aims to register new citizens Once an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Lucia Martinez of East Hampton will...