Puerto Rico

September 14, 2021
Cruz Bonlarron Martínez

Ismael García-Colón’s new book provides a comprehensive history of Puerto Rican migration to rural communities in the United States.

June 19, 2021
Bárbara I. Abadía-Rexach

En Puerto Rico, más de 40 años después del asesinato de una mujer negra por la policía, la lucha contra el racismo antinegro y la brutalidad policiaca sigue siendo urgente.

August 31, 2020
Isa Rodríguez Soto

Faced with an onslaught of disasters and the injustices of colonialism, Puerto Rican communities have bet on their own survival. Their mutual aid efforts testify to both the power of grassroots organizing and the scale of state neglect. 

August 25, 2020
Jose Atiles

Successive administrations in Puerto Rico have relied on the state of emergency and executive orders, eroding democracy and exacerbating structural inequality.

August 5, 2020
Ruth Santiago, Catalina M. de Onís, and Hilda Lloréns

The struggle to transform Puerto Rico’s flawed energy grid with locally controlled alternatives is a matter of life and death.

March 23, 2020
Verónica Enid Dávila Ellis

YHLQMDLG is a reggaetón album that will only sound groundbreaking outside of the genre's vanguard.

January 15, 2020
Catalina de Onís, Hilda Lloréns, and Ruth “Tata” Santiago

Recent earthquakes and aftershocks in Puerto Rico generate overwhelming evidence of the urgent need for community-directed renewable energy.

December 27, 2019
Verónica Dávila and Marisol LeBrón

How does a song about the ubiquity of sexual and gendered violence perpetrated by the state against women become an earworm?

October 21, 2019
Pedro Cabán

The summer uprising of 2019 in Puerto Rico was a repudiation of politics as usual and revealed that Partido Popular Democrático and Partido Nuevo Progresista dominance of the island’s political system is no longer assured.

September 19, 2019
Melanie La Rosa

Citizen-led solar initiatives in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria remedied immediate local challenges and forged increased resilience using sustainable power, serving as an important example in clean energy development.

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