At the festival Saturday, more than the traditional flag of Puerto Rico was on display. There were flags from El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, the United States and more. But what does the ...

Distinguishing themselves as non-Black became a matter of survival. During the early 1900s, Puerto Rico experienced a mysterious surge in “white” people on census records. In a paper ...

Racially, the Caribbean falls into two distinct groups: the territories with a comparatively large white population, and the territories with a predominantly black or colored population. In the 1940 ...

is an aspect of Puerto Rico's history that's often overlooked, and efforts are being made to revisit and understand the experiences of emancipated Black Puerto Ricans, whose stories have been ...

When Arturo Schomburg was a child in Puerto Rico ... Black people had no real history or achievements worth noting. Incensed but motivated, Schomburg, the child of a Black mother and white German ...