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#OnThisDay, January 24, 1874, Arturo Schomburg was born in San Mateo de Cangrejos, Puerto Rico. His dedication to preserving Black history led to the creation of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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Meet Xenia Rubinos, a vocalist, composer, & artist from Hartford, CT. The daughter of a Puerto Rican mother & a Cuban father, her music transcends genres, blending rhythm and emotion. Her project, Circulo de Voces, amplifies historically excluded voices in the Boricua community.
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Call for Contributors! CENTRO Journal seeks submissions for a special issue on health, care work, and healthcare activism in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, & U.S. Latinx communities.
Abstracts due: March 17, 2025
Learn more & submit: centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/opp…
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We join our communities in mourning the passing of José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords Organization & a tireless advocate for Puerto Rican & Latinx rights. His fight for justice, from Chicago to beyond, united communities & built a lasting legacy. Rest in power.
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#OnThisDay in 1839, Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator, writer, and human rights advocate, was born. A champion of liberation, unity, and education, his legacy lives on through Hostos Community College in the Bronx.
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Call for Papers: CENTRO Journal is seeking contributions for a special issue on The Puerto Rican Radical Tradition! Explore historical figures, contemporary movements, diaspora connections and more.
Deadline: January 15, 2025.
More info: centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/opp…
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Join CENTRO Team! Passionate about design & Puerto Rican studies? CENTRO is hiring a Part-Time Graphic Design Assistant!
Highlights:
Work on journals, Data Hub reports, & more
$23/hr, hybrid schedule, health benefits
NYC (Midtown & East Harlem)
Apply now! form.asana.com/?k=7EY3FjLO_1…
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#OnThisDay in 1868, Ramón Emeterio Betances & Segundo Ruiz Belvis founded the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee in the Dominican Republic. Their efforts laid the groundwork for the Grito de Lares, Puerto Rico’s fight for independence.
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Centro PR retweeted
26 Dec 2024
Shout out to @CentroPR for including one of my favorite pictures in this book about the PR diaspora in the last 5 years.
My muses always @CHERCHEZLACHAZZ @FrenchieMFKNLee @BoriBGyal
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Centro PR retweeted
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Thrilled to have my photos included in @CentroPR’s On Both Sides of the Lens 2019-2024, Documenting the Puerto Rican Diaspora 🇵🇷
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Giancarlo Huapaya calls Ángela María Dávila’s ANIMAL FIERO Y TIERNO a poetic masterpiece exploring time, history & language. Blending avant-garde, neo-baroque, & voices like César Vallejo & Julia de Burgos, this is a must-read for poetry lovers.
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El último apagón (del año): A Statement on the NYE Blackout in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico woke up to darkness this morning as a result of a countrywide energy blackout. It is likely to remain in the dark for up to 72 hours.
Read our full statement here: centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/new…
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A night of transformation & celebration! ✨
From Helen Ceballos’ moving performance to lively music by Las Mariquitas, Caudal honored cuir communities & ballroom culture in Puerto Rico & the DR. 🌺
📔 Order your copy today!
#Caudal #CuirCulture
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#OnThisDay, December 28, 1969, The Young Lords took over the 1st Spanish United Methodist Church, known as The People's Church, to provide services to the community like a breakfast program, health testing, a daycare with spanish lessons, PR history lessons, and peformances.
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