Why There Is No ‘Right or Wrong’ Way to Be Puerto Rican
Throughout my life I have had various identities from Puerto Rican to hip hop head, graffiti writer to New Yorker and more. Being “Puerto Rica...
Walter Mercado’s Life Story is Coming to Television
Walter Mercado is more beloved than ever before. The Puerto Rican pyschic and astrologer died at the end of 2019. Leaving a hole in our coll...
The 2020 National Puerto Rican Day Celebration
The espiritu of the Puerto Rican Parade lives on! Even though there won’t be a flotilla of marchers or thousands of flags along New York City’s 5t...
Piri Thomas | The Flow Master
Living in a dichotomous world where color was chosen over culture, Piri Thomas an Afro-Cuban-Puerto Rican man busted open a literary door for futu...
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The Nuyorican Poets Café kicked off a movement. Intentional or not, poetry fans across the world know the name of the little building known as the...
Freddie Prinze – A Prinze Among Men
“Loooooking good!”
That single line let loose from the wide grin of a handsome and lanky kid from New York City’s Washington Heights, cemented Freddie...
New School Latino Singers You Need To Know
Your mami may have pined over old school cats like Vicente Fernandez or Danny Rivera while your girlfriends loved them some Marc Anthony or Daddy Yank...
The Release of Oscar Lopez Rivera Gives Puerto Rico Hope
Drums sounded and tears flowed in Chicago, New York, Florida and Puerto Rico on January 17, 2017 when a page in our history was turned and a painful c...
6 Things To Know Before Dating Puerto Rican Women
We’re just a few days from the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City so you know what that means: Puerto Rican pride is going to be on full ...
5 Cultural Influencers You Need to Follow
While wading through the white noise that Twitter can be -"Look at me!", "Buy this!", "I’m cool!!"- we discovered that there are some folks in the Twi...