Martin Espada’s new poetry collection, “The Jailbreak of Sparrows,” captures people, politics, and scenes and moments from Puerto Rico. Espada, a University of Massachusetts professor and acclaimed ...

Let the year's biggest fashion party begin! A rainy Met Gala got underway Monday with a tuxedoed choir and a trend true to ...

The project "centers marginalized people," Melendez-Badillo said. "Benito was really interested in, for example, highlighting the history of surveillance and repression in Puerto Rico." The ...

The Puerto Rican ... Black Style," the theme for the gala. Curator in Charge Andrew Bolton said that the exhibit, which is inspired by guest curator Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book Slaves to ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art came alive with tributes to Black history, culture and style as the annual Met Gala got underway Monday evening. The rain did little to dampen spirits on ...

And as a local and travel enthusiast, I’ll happily weigh in. Fans are visiting Puerto Rico not just for the beaches, but because artists like Bad Bunny are known for putting on extra-special ...

“The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government," said Jackson, America's first Black woman Supreme ... for judges in Puerto Rico, Politico reports.

making him the youngest ever professor in Hunter College’s history. Toole wrote the bulk of A Confederacy of Dunces while stationed in Puerto Rico. The book’s title is a nod to satirist ...

Ronald Eyerman, a professor of sociology at Yale University and co-author of the 1998 book “Youth and Social ... America to places like that.” Puerto Rican rapper and filmmaker Residente ...

In 1992, Hurricane Andrew, one of the most devastating tropical cyclones in U.S. history, ravaged Elliott ... an ecologist at the University of Puerto Rico who was not involved in the study ...