For the past week, the number one song in the world has been a plena. On January 11, the title track of Bad Bunny’s newest album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, took over the number one spot on Apple Music. It ...

Get ready for salsa, empanadas and and piraguas. The 51st Puerto Rican Day Festival hits Bristol this Saturday beginning at noon at Bristol Lions Park, at the foot of Mill Street on the Delaware River ...

In Santurce, a poor suburb outside San Juan, Puerto Rico, there’s a bus that doesn’t run anymore, but the stops it once madeparadasstill lend their names to the densely populated neighborhoods. Ask ...

Julienne Gage is a Miami-based anthropologist and journalist who has worked as a reporter and as a civil rights and international aid communications specialist in the United States, Latin America, the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Maps, music and video-recordings can be effectively used to discuss the present and historical incidence of the plena. In the way that rap music ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is more than a global music phenomenon; he’s a bona fide symbol of Puerto Rico. The church choir boy turned “King of Latin Trap” has ...

Miguel Lanzó used to arrive at all events, no matter how big or small, carrying his barril, a wooden-cask drum, and ready to make them beat at any time. His humility and passion for the Bomba, Plena ...