Join Complex for The Plena Game Reporta live Game Day watch party bringing Puerto Rican flavor to every play. Legendary music ...

With its infectious call and response vocals and topical lyrics commenting on the events and gossip of the day, the music genre plena is known in Puerto Rico as the people’s newspaper. And much like ...

Julienne Gage is a Miami-based anthropologist and journalist who has worked as a reporter and as a civil rights and international aid communications specialist in the United States, Latin America, the ...

Some musical genres are just particular—particular to a region or a community, without aspiring to be universally relevant or to commercially conquer new audiences. I think of the plena this way, an ...

Photos by Deborah Guelfi Jul 21, 2025 Jul 21, 2025 LAWRENCE — The heat and humidity weren’t enough to discourage a large crowd from turning out Sunday afternoon for the third annual Bomba y Plena ...