As the city gears up for its ninth iteration of the Puerto Rican Festival this Saturday, New Haveners can expect food trucks ...

The black and white flag was a response to the financial oversight board that was created from PROMESA; it protests the U.S. mainland's financial control over Puerto Rico.

The First Flag: Starting in 1493, the Spanish empire controlled Puerto Rico for more than 400 years, a violent period marked by the genocide of the indigenous Taíno people and the importation of ...

He points to the island’s first flag, the Revolutionary Flag of Lares, which was designed ahead of a major uprising in Lares, Puerto Rico, in 1868 against the island’s first colonizer, Spain.

Like Puerto Rico today, Hawaii was a developed place when its residents applied for statehood. This is in contrast with some earlier states like Ohio and Wyoming that were carved out of sparsely ...

Painter Héctor Collazo Hernández is painting the Puerto Rican flag in each of the island’s towns. His project, 78 pueblos y 1 bandera, seeks to turn abandoned buildings into tourist attractions.

He noted the flag became a symbol of resilience and hope after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017 as a Category 4 storm, causing more than $100 billion in estimated damage and ...

That image and 59 other black-and-white shots are part of “Picturing Puerto Rico Under the American Flag: The Photographs of Louise Rosskam 1937-1948,” an exhibit that runs May 11 to July 21 ...

Republican mayoral hopeful Nicole Malliotakis got into an embarrassing flap at the West Indian Day Parade on Monday when she tweeted about being presented with a Cuban flag — whole holding the ...

SAN JUAN (AP) — The screams echoed across Puerto Rico when Jennifer Lopez unfurled a feather cape representing the flag of the U.S. territory during the Super Bowl’s halftime show, a moment ...