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After its own six months of delay, the Senate finally passed a $19.1 billion disaster aid package that grants $1.4 billion to Puerto Rico for hurricane relief.

Philadelphia’s District 7 is known as ‘El Barrio’ for its predominant Hispanic population. The largest portion of that population hails from Puerto Rico, where Election Day is celebrated like a holiday and turnout is massive. But District 7 has the city’s lowest voter turnout rate.

The 2017 film, directed by Rosa Emmanuelli Gutiérrez and Gonzalo Mazzini, was shown at Friends Select School on April 8. It highlights the island’s difficult and uncertain history framed by colonization.

The television personality, actress, talk show host, and philanthropist will donate $2 million to help the island recover.

The focus of national politics has remained static on the results of the Mueller investigation, while the country seems increasingly plunged in administrative chaos.

The Kings of la Salsa prove that aging is mandatory, but being old is optional.

U.S. Latino Musicians have transformed the country, making America great again, and again.

Puerto Rico’s own Ricardo Morales leads the way on the clarinet for the Philadelphia Orchestra this weekend as a principal soloist.

“After the devastating mismanagement of disaster recovery efforts across Puerto Rico, a mere resignation leaves us wanting,” the advocacy coalition, Power 4 Puerto Rico, said in a press release.

Afro-Puerto Rican members of the Hellfighters’ band helped define the regiment’s cultural impact on Europe

The Administration's attempt to deny funds to the recovery of the Island seems to show the abysmal distance between this government and anything that has to do with Latinos.

Cruz says he’s content where he is now - but he isn’t ruling out other political aspirations.

Led by the Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications, Liberty Coca-Cola has made major strides in connecting the company with the community and expanding their brand. 

At a symposium at the Rutgers-Camden campus this week, Puerto Rican leaders and experts explored the “storms” that created Puerto Rico’s crisis — and what comes next for the island post-Maria, nearly one year later.

As midterm elections approach, the spotlight for many of Philadelphia's politicians, activists, and voters remains on Puerto Rico’s recovery nearly a year after Hurricane Maria struck the island.

With a gift of 2 million seeds and a $500,000 research grant from Starbucks, coffee growers in Puerto Rico look to the future of rebuilding the island’s coffee industry.  

From growing up in a Puerto Rican migrant worker family to paving a path to success in academia, Dr. Bonilla-Santiago has never lost her straightforward and honest approach to creating change.