When Richard Colon—better known as Crazy Legs from the Rock Steady Crew—saw the devastation that transpired after Hurricane Irma and Maria struck Puerto Rico in 2017, he knew he had to do something ...
Natasha Alford, the journalist behind the short film, shared with theGrio her process and intent behind the upcoming documentary. “I’m African American and Puerto Rican, and as somebody who lives at ...
San Juan, May 19 (EFE).San Juan, May 19 (EFE). — A documentary on Puerto Rico’s littleknown Cuban exile community will be screened this Thursday in Mexico City, where the filmmaker, Puerto Rican ...
A group of students from Jacksonville are back from Puerto Rico. They spent almost a week on the island working on a documentary about the recovery from Hurricane Maria. “Their voices were not getting ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - CBS News correspondent David Begnaud stopped by CBS2 to discuss his new documentary "Puerto Rico The Exodus after Hurricane Maria." It's been one year and a day since Hurricane ...
Director Cecilia Aldarondo wanted to make a film about disaster capitalism and how predatory people take advantage of the chaos to profit. Director Cecilia Aldarondo (“Memories of a Penitent Heart”) ...
Latin America and the Caribbean received 95 percent of the Africans stolen during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But what does it mean to be a descendent of those Africans today, in a world where ...
After Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico with Category 4-force winds in September 2017, government officials placed the death toll at 64, drawing intense criticism from experts and ...
San Juan, Apr 7 (EFE).San Juan, Apr 7 (EFE). — Moviemaker Jose Manuel Davila is shooting a feature film entitled “1950” about the armed uprising that some 100 members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist ...
When Hurricane Maria blew across Puerto Rico in 2017, television news media descended to cover the disaster, filming the requisite scenes: wind lashing the island, infrastructure devastated, people ...
Walter Alomar, founder of the non-profit Organization for Culture of Hispanic Origins (OCHO), will host and discuss his multiple award-winning film on the history and current economic/political state ...