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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Celebrity owners of a new restaurant have been told by Miami city officials to undo the work of a famed artist who painted the building as the flag of Puerto Rico because the owners didn’t apply ...

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.

What if Puerto Rico becomes a state? Flag Day food for thought. June 14, 2013— -- intro: As holidays go, Flag Day doesn't get much respect. It doesn't get the fireworks of July 4 or the ...

SAN JUAN — 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 that many ...