Judith Ortiz Cofer was one of the leading women writers of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.

The increased speed and size of the merchant ships of the late 19th century allowed the spread in Puerto Rico of a little-remembered pandemic, the bubonic plague.

Francisco Oller y Cestero was the first Puerto Rican painter educated in Europe.

José Campeche y Jordán was the first Puerto Rican painter recognized internationally.

Led multiple environmental and historical conservation projects that helped increase awareness and educate current generations about the value of preserving our heritage for the enjoyment of a better future.

He was one of the first second generation Puerto Rican writers of the diaspora to publish an autobiographical novel about his experiences as a black Puerto Rican, born and raised in New York’s El Barrio (Spanish Harlem) during the years of the Great Depression.

The history of African influences in Puerto Rican music begins long before 1508, the year in which the Spanish settled the island, and 1492, when Christopher Columbus made Europeans aware of the New World.

Television in Puerto Rico began in 1954 with the creation of WKAQ Telemundo, Channel 2, and WAPA, Channel 4.

He has been called the “absolute genius of the XIX century music” and the “most prolific composer of danzas”.

Organized in 1971 to work toward the establishment of an independent, socialist republic in Puerto Rico.