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A potentially monumental incident occurred on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention. As Puerto Rico’s Zoraida Fonalledas, chairwoman of the Committee on Permanent Organization, approached the podium to deliver her address, chants of “USA! USA!” began to swell from the delegations gathered in Tampa. They grew so loud, so disruptive, that Fonalledas wasn’t able to begin Read More
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.” Thomas Paine published these words in February 1776, urging the Americans to throw off their colonial costumes and don the robes of self-government. Already the cry had Read More
Thousands of Puerto Ricans marched through Midtown Manhattan waving Puerto Rican flags of all sizes. Admittedly, I wasn’t there, but growing up in Humboldt Park, I know with certainty that the atmosphere was thick with puertorriqueñidad. The Puerto Rican Pride Parade (as it’s known) has been an annual feature in N.Y.C. since 1958 – a Read More