Growing up in a working-class section of Jersey City, Cynthia Renta learned how to negotiate between many colliding worlds: the Cuban crowd she hung out with in Union City; her fellow Puerto Ricans ...

Protesters ended Friday’s 5,000-person Black Lives Matter march with an hour of singing, dancing, and celebration set to the sounds of bomba, a music of resistance. Dozens circled together outside ...

Executive produced by Queen Latifah and directed by Vashni Korin, “Negra, Yo Soy Bella” is a documentary that celebrates Black Puerto Rican women, their ancestors and the power of bomba dance. A new ...

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First documented in the seventeenth century, Caribbean bomba emerged in the context of colonialism. Mariana Núñez Lozada Campo, yo vivo triste Cada día sufriendo más Ay Dio’ ¿qué será de mí? If you ...

Tearra Oso was just 7 years old when she first discovered Bomba. “My cousin was going to a Bomba dance class and I didn’t want to be at home alone,” Oso said. “I wanted to go with her.” What was ...

The Taller Bombalele Dance Company will present a free performance and workshop of Afro-Puerto-Rican Bomba at the Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center on Monday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The ...

For Puerto Ricans living in the Bay Area, the Caribbean island can feel very far away indeed. Rather than passively longing for the two-note call of the coquí, the tiny frog whose mating song ...

Dirty Dancing made it famous, the Havana Nights carved it into your minds and the Buena Vista Social Club had you dreaming of sipping Cuba Libres in a dusty Cuban cafe on a Friday night while watching ...

A new documentary short film is showing the world what it means to be Black, beautiful and rooted in tradition on the island of Puerto Rico. “Negra, Yo Soy Bella” — which is Spanish for “Black, I am ...