A violent act on New Year’s Day allegedly committed by a tourist highlights rising tensions between the island and the ...
Released Jan. 5, the record pays homage to the island’s rich rhythms like plena and salsa, and delves into it’s seldom taught history.
Independence. Puerto Rico has a long history of pro-independence movements dating back to uprisings against Spanish and American colonial rule. Nationalists have attempted to assassinate a U.S ...
Puerto Ricans have endured a relentless string of challenges that have left the island bruised but unbroken, including a ...
Fernando Garcia was the first Puerto Rican service member to receive the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Korean War ...
Holyoke’s first Puerto Rican immigrants met a city trending toward a has-been industrial powerhouse that didn’t offer the ...
But foreign and domestic political factors were at play, as well. Cuban President Fidel Castro, who backed Puerto Rican ...
Power had been restored for about 336,000 of Puerto Rico's 1.5 million customers as of 6:00 p.m., but LUMA Energy said the ...
As Puerto Ricans welcomed 2025, many faced the grim-reality of celebrating in the dark as outages lingered following another ...
When President Jimmy Carter commuted the prison sentences of the four living Puerto Rican nationalists who launched attacks against members of Congress and President Harry S. Truman in the 1950s ...