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Unscrewing ourselves out of post-hurricane trauma

Puerto Rico para Cristo

In 1899 ambassadors from protestant churches knelt over the map of Puerto Rico, divided the territory among them and prayed that locals met their inf...
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The Puerto Rican SIlence

In her description of a hate crime, a transgender woman recalls how her audition sharpened while she fended off what seemed like certain death. She c...
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Statehood in Anecdotes

The funeral of a military man. A young man escapes homophobia. We all recall memories associated with our contentious relationship with our political ...
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Did Someone say Culture? Nope.

Puerto Rico goes into overdrive. Privatized PREPA. Ed system is overhauled. And bitcoin zillionaires move to PR. But where are culture and arts mentio...
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Photog. Joe Rodriguez in the House

Legedary photographer Joseph Rodríguez (Nat Geo, NY Times) talks life and death in Puerto Rico. Women take the streets of NY and my mom leaves for Pue...
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The Mother Storm

My mom relocated to New York after Hurricane María, a category 4 storm, eroded Puerto Rico's electric grid and killed close to one thousand U.S. citiz...
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