Bomba. It's a word you feel: percussive, rhythmic, pulsating. The art form grew out of the Afro Indigenous cultures of Puerto ...

To get us going we started with coffee at Café Cuatro Sombras, a farm-to-table coffee shop. Puerto Rico became one of the ...

Like Bad Bunny’s music, Puerto Rican Muslims’ lives challenge ideas about race, religion and belonging in the Americas.

The first indigenous people encountered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 are not always widely recognized. Patricia Chali’naru Dones, a Newton resident, works to preserve the culture of Puerto Rico’s ...

NEW HAVEN -- "A Puerto Rican Expression of Three Cultures" is the theme of the organization FLECHAS, which celebrates the island's Spanish, Taíno and, specifically, its African heritage. FLECHAS is an ...

To focus on Puerto Rico's indigenous peoples and attractions, the Puerto Rico Tourism Co. unveiled La Ruta Taina (The Taino Route), which runs from Arecibo on the island's north coast to Ponce on the ...

Six months after Puerto Rico was pummeled by Hurricane Maria, the storm has not passed in the eyes of members of Rochester’s Borinquen Dance Theatre. “It’s still chaotic on the island,” said dancer ...

This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, Indian Country Today, and High Country News. In 2017, Hurricane Maria hit the ...

Part 1. Competing historical narratives regarding Taíno extinction -- The stakes of being Taíno -- Historical discourses and debates about Puerto Rico's indigenous trajectory -- Part 2. The Puerto ...