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As a child, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez turned to comics to help him escape the poverty and crime that was right outside his door. Now, the 45-year-old Puerto Rican activist and artist has created his own comic book, hoping to raise awareness about social...

Poet Martín Espada at the Tribute to Frank Espada  El Puente, Brooklyn, May 17, 2014 (Photo credit: Fernan Luna) By Martín Espada Marge Piercy writes: Attention is love. My father paid attention. This was the man who took me to...

Protests over Puerto Rico’s economic crisis, held earlier this month on Park Ave. (Photo by Gerardo Romo via El Diario) The Puerto Rican Diaspora is asking for support from President Barack Obama and Congress in view of the island’s critical economic...

PUERTO RICO, PR and NEW YORK, NY – September 11, 2015 – (HISPANICIZE WIRE) – Although the history of Puerto Ricans in the United States spans over 100 years, the recent influx to the U.S. has made the voices of U.S. Puerto Ricans, old and new, increasingly...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Aug. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A group of nine leading Puerto Rico industry and business associations are joining in an unprecedented legal challenge to a Puerto Rico Energy CommISSion (PREC) move to impose the first...