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Understanding, Preserving and Sharing the Puerto Rican Experience in the U.S. RTs are not endorsements.

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Make sure to subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date on all current Centro news as well as updates from our partners, the island, and the diaspora. Sign up for our newsletter here 👉🏾 eepurl.com/hRVzH5
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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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Yesterday, Jan 20, 1901, Jesús Colón was born in Cayey, Puerto Rico. A writer, labor organizer, & activist, Colón documented the Puerto Rican migrant experience & fought for workers' rights in NYC. His book A Puerto Rican in New York remains a classic.
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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/opportunities/…
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Meet Shakti Castro, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University focusing on Puerto Rican public health & activism! Her dissertation examines harm reduction in the context of AIDS activism and colonialism.
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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/opportunities/…
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Meet Nayda Collazo-Llorens, a visual artist from San Juan, now in Kalamazoo, MI. Her work explores identity and place through drawing, video, and installations. In her latest project, she reimagines maps to reveal new narratives on diasporic dislocation.
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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_1q…
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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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Meet Dr. Lorraine Torres Colón, a postdoc at UC Berkeley. Her decolonial feminist work explores health, gender, & violence in racialized communities, with a focus on data sovereignty in Puerto Rico.
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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. centropr-store.com/animal-fiero-y…
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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/news/statement…
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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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Meet Dr. Keishla Rivera-López, a literary & cultural studies scholar exploring how marginalized communities challenge dominant narratives of Puerto Rican identity. Her upcoming book, Boricua Projects, explores the culture, motherhood & memory beyond archives.
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From Puerto Rico, to New York, to Florida, and everywhere in between, CENTRO wishes you a season filled with love, joy, and connection (and plenty of lechón, coquito, and pasteles, of course)! ¡Felices fiestas y próspero Año Nuevo!
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