Alexis Massol González led the efforts to create the Adjuntas Art and Culture Workshop, known throughout Puerto Rico as Casa Pueblo.

Distinguished historian, educator, public servant and humanist. He was president of the University of Puerto Rico and founder of the Puerto Rican Endowment for the Humanities.

The name of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (better known as Arthur A. Schomburg in the U.S.) is probably better known to the African American community than among Puerto Ricans.

Creator of the concept of negritud, with the help of his lifelong Senegalese friend, Leopold Sedar Senghor, who later became president of that African country.

This archipelago is located in the far northwest of the Antilles, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.