A community portal about Puerto Rico with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, also Porto Rico and more commonly Puerto Rico, is a United States territory with Commonwealth status...
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A community portal about Puerto Rico with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, also Porto Rico and more commonly Puerto Rico, is a United States territory with Commonwealth status located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands. The archipelago of Puerto Rico includes the main island of Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Greater Antilles, and a number of smaller islands and keys, the largest of which are Mona, Vieques, and Culebra. Puerto Ricans sometimes refer to their country as Boriken, or the Spanish variant Borínquen, a name for the island used by indigenous Taino people.
Carmelo Anthony was pleasantly surprised to find himself on Hispanic Business magazine’s list of 100 most influential Hispanics. Not only because he isn’t particularly influential, but because he didn’t realize that people were aware of his Puerto Rican background.
Says Carmelo:
A lot of people are surprised when they hear about it or when they see my tattoo [of a Puerto Rican flag]. I don’t think a lot of people know that side of me
Carmelo’s girlfriend, La La Vazquez, is also... Read Full Story
KJ, 5, enjoys the sights and sounds of the 43rd Annual Puerto Rican/Hispanic Day Parade (June 7) in Brentwood. The young Boricua proudly sports the traditional guayabera and pava while waving the red, white and blue flag of the Puerto Rican nation. Thousands of islanders of Puerto Rican heritage, Latinos of all nationalities (Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Dominican Republic, et al), and many nonLatinos as well, came out to what is Long Island's most festive Spring ethnic fiesta. Below are... Read Full Story
I sit in my hotel room tonight, looking out my huge window towards the harbor of Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria, Spain. The light is so bright, it looks almost white in the photographs I've taken. And there's something almost *too* much about being here. This town was constructed 20-30 years ago with the sole purpose of tourism. The steep cliffs are covered with bright white hotels and the harbor is lined with touristy restaurants and a few souvenir shops.
Don't get me wrong, I love being in... Read Full Story
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor wasn't born in Puerto Rico but she keeps in close touch with family back on the island, relatives said Tuesday. The 54-year-old federal appeals court judge — nominated by President Barack Obama to be the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court — calls relatives often and visits whenever she's on the island, said Jose Garcia Baez, one of a number of cousins on Puerto Rico's west coast. "She is a typical Puerto Rican," said Garcia, a lawyer in the... Read Full Story
Juan Morel Campos (1857-1896) was an Afro-Puerto Rican composer and musician known as the quintessential composer of Puerto Rican Danzas. He is profiled at AfriClassical.com A 4-minute YouTube video called “ Felices Días - Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico” was posted Feb. 19, 2008. Juan Morel Campos came into the world on May 16, 1857 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He was of Afro-Puerto Rican descent. In the Spring 2005 issue of the journal Centro 7, Prof. Alan West-Duran of Northeastern University... Read Full Story
