Merengue music filled the air in Newark on Sunday, when revelers with roots in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Ecuador and other Spanish-speaking homelands took to the streets for the city’s sixth annual Latin Festival .

The day-long celebration of Latino culture included scheduled performances by Dominican divas Milly Quezada and Miriam Cruz , and singer and actress Gisselle, a New York City native of Puerto Rican descent.

Booths featuring food, clothing, jewelry and other manifestations of South and Central American and Caribbean culture lined Bloomfield Avenue in the city’s largely Spanish-speaking North Ward, perused by Latinos and others from Newark and elsewhere, starting at 12 p.m.

The theme of the event was domestic violence awareness, and city’s Office of Viol

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