Celso, the Puerto Rican muralist, who was integral to ... I’ve come to know this: The food, the art, the people of Loiza and the Afro-history of Puerto Rico are national treasures.

The rhythms, Padilla Vargas said, “were initially brought over by Africans from the Congo [and] Angola, and mixed with some Indigenous [Puerto Rican ... West African enslaved people and their ...

These connections are evident in the very fabric of Puerto Rican identity. Santos-Febres notes that roughly 73 percent of the island’s population identify as mixed race, which includes African ...

By: Dennis Richmond, Jr. The sights and sounds of Hispanic culture filled the streets of Yonkers on Sunday, June 1, 2025, ...

Inspired by the CROWN Act and painful experiences with racism against Black hair, Afro-Puerto Rican activists are rallying ... in that space where other young people, Black people, and Afro ...

Puerto Ricans owe much of our cuisine to the ingenuity of Afro-Puerto Rican and mestizo ... was such a long and complicated process that most people wouldn’t have had time to make them in ...

Earlier this year, legislators in the U.S. territory held a public hearing on the issue, with several Puerto Ricans sharing ... “Unfortunately, people identified as black or Afro descendant ...

“This is like a call to all people of Caribbean and Latin descent to come and join with us,” Rigmaiden says. “The South Bay community is just so interested in the whole diaspora of African descendants ...

“DtMf” is performed in the Afro-Puerto Rican folk music style of plena ... salsa was “in many ways comparable to how people thought of reggaeton when it first began,” explains Petra ...

He's pulling on traditional sounds like the jarabe, which is folk music from the campo, historic Afro Puerto Rican bomba y plena ... and a lot of people are saying that musicians, including ...

However, it took writing a letter and an AFRO Hair Pride Demonstration outside of the Puerto Rican capitol in May ... will be ancestral justice for Black people who [don’t] have the opportunity ...