Tiempo: first generation Dominican student earns full ride to Yale, PRLDEF gets new leadership

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- On this week's episode of Tiempo we speak to a first generation Dominican student from the Bronx heading to Yale University with some help from Derek Jeter's Turn 2 Foundation.

Joe Torres speaks to the student who earned the 4-year full scholarship and members of the foundation.

And Latino justice "PRLDEF" - also known as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Education Fund - has a new president and general counsel.

The national non-profit has a half-century history of advocating and challenging the rule of law to empower the Latino community.

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Tiempo airs Sunday mornings at 11:30 a.m. on Channel 7.