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Vanessa Calderón-Rosado, CEO of Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción in Boston, couldn’t believe what she was hearing when a friend texted her a clip from a Donald Trump rally.

For nearly 50 years, El Mondonguito, named for a stew of tripe and vegetables, has been a staple on Dudley Street where residents get a taste of San Juan. It’s not just about the food or the socializing. The restaurant, adorned in original Puerto Rican street art and murals, transports people back to their island homeland.

Ágora Cultural Architects has received a $700,000 grant from The Mellon Foundation to develop a Puerto Rican “cultural corridor” amplifying the work of local Boricua artists in the Eastern United States.

Villa Victoria’s proud Puerto Rican community has a vibrant new reason to celebrate their heritage: a mural of the Puerto Rican flag by artist Héctor Collazo.

Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción will livestream Festival Betances, the longest running Latino cultural festival in New England, on Facebook and YouTube on Saturday, July 18.

Excerpt: In a May 27 panel at the Latin American Studies Association’s annual conference, held in Boston, experts discussed the impacts of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rican activists rallied Monday outside Boston’s John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse to ask a federal judge to erase part of the island’s $72 billion debt and protect its retirement pensions.

Activists calling for the “decolonization of Puerto Rico” marched through the South End last Thursday in protest against the U.S. government and to mourn the thousands of lives lost since Hurricane Maria hit last year.

The annual Puerto Rican Festival of Massachusetts has been a tradition since 1967, but this year, the event holds even greater significance to local Puerto Ricans as the U.S. territory continues to recover after Hurricane Maria.

As a federal bankruptcy court in Boston held a hearing to determine the future of Puerto Rico’s debt crisis, local grassroots organizations gathered outside the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse Monday to demand cancellation of the island’s debt and diversion of more U.S. government resources to further rebuild Puerto Rico.