Tag: Puerto Rico
Philly’s Puerto Rican Day Parade embodies strength of the mainland’s second-largest...
Héctor M. Varela Rios, Villanova University
Picture this: Puerto Rican flags, referred to as “la monoestrellada” – the “one-starred”...
Street scrolls: The beats, rhymes and spirituality of Latin hip-hop
Alejandro Nava, University of Arizona
As a first-generation college graduate and a Latino from a family that constantly scrambled...
All Latinos don’t vote the same way – their place of...
Eliza Willis, Grinnell College and Janet A. Seiz, Grinnell College
Joe Biden won Florida’s 2020 Democratic primary, capturing a majority of the state’s Latino voters.
Polls...
Earthquake forecast for Puerto Rico: Dozens more large aftershocks are likely
Richard Aster, Colorado State University
Multiple strong and damaging earthquakes in southern Puerto Rico starting around Dec. 28, 2019 have killed at least one person,...
New hurricane season jeopardizes Caribbean recovery: 5 essential reads
Catesby Holmes, The Conversation
June 1 marks the beginning of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season – an ominous date for the Caribbean region, where many...
Puerto Ricans aren’t giving up on Christmas
Evelyn Milagros Rodriguez, University of Puerto Rico - Humacao
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Some say Puerto Rico has the longest Christmas in the world.
For Puerto Ricans,...
Will Puerto Ricans return home after Hurricane María?
Alexis R. Santos-Lozada, Pennsylvania State University
Even before this year’s devastating hurricane season, the team of demographers I work with at Penn State and the...
Why Puerto Rico is getting the brunt of ‘donor fatigue’
Why Puerto Rico is getting the brunt of 'donor fatigue'
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Pregnant women face tough choices about medication use due to lack...
Almut Winterstein, University of Florida and Sonja Rasmussen, Johns Hopkins University
A panel convened in July 2025 by the...
