Oct 13th, 2009 · Last year, the prodigious saxophonist took home the prestigious Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships. He's used the opportunities to investigate his Puerto Rican musical roots; his new album is a methodical but natural-feeling synthesis of folkloric plena and mainland modern jazz. Hear Esta Plena in its entirety for the week preceding its Oct. 20 physical release.
Sep 18th, 2009 · To some, Alberto Rodriguez is a terrorist. To others, the husband, father of three, and cancer survivor is an independence hero. Either way, September marks ten years since the Puerto Rican nationalist was offered clemency from President Bill Clinton and released from jail. And now, he and others are asking President Barack Obama to release the two other imprisoned members of the radical nationalist group, the Armed Forces of National Liberation. Guest Host Mandalit del Barco speaks to Alberto Rodriguez about his past and what his life is like now.
Aug 6th, 2009 · The Senate voted 68-31 to approve President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, elevating the daughter of Puerto Rican parents after a summerlong debate filled with ethnic politics. She is the first justice nominated by a Democratic president in a decade and a half.
Jul 15th, 2009 · Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, is a native of Bronx, N.Y. Her confirmation hearings in the Senate are getting special attention from the Puerto Rican community there.
Jul 10th, 2009 · The Senate Judiciary Committee begins confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Monday. Republicans are sure to focus on her time at a Puerto Rican legal defense fund and her style on the bench. Democrats will likely point to her remarkable life story.
May 26th, 2009 · When President Obama announced Sonia Sotomayor as his first nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, he laid out her life story in rich detail. Raised in a Bronx, N.Y., housing project by a single mother of Puerto Rican descent, an early Nancy Drew aficionado and a lifelong Yankees fan, Sotomayor went on to succeed at Princeton and Yale.
Jun 9th, 2008 · It has been five years since the U.S. Navy left the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. Now the area is becoming commercially developed, and that is threatening one of the world's brightest bioluminescent bays.
Aug 30th, 2007 · A new TV drama starting next month follows a Florida sugar cane dynasty of Cuban-Americans. The cast of Cane went through extensive coaching to make sure their accents sounded Cuban, not Puerto Rican or Columbian because audiences increasingly know the difference.