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A crowd of around 100 people gathered Thursday in what’s known as “Little Puerto Rico,” the Villa Victoria apartments in Boston’s South End, rounding out a full week of protests in the city of Boston ...
With 50-60 percent of Puerto Rican residents still without power, one Boston-based group is working to bring water filtration systems to the island that was ravaged by tropical storms earlier this ...
We spoke to a man whose family from Puerto Rico arrived in Boston after Hurricane Maria hit. Elvin Zayas-Lai has lived in East Boston for 18 years, and recently his parents and his youngest ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — First, Hurricane Maria knocked out power and water to Puerto Rico. Then diesel fuel, gas and water became scarce. Now, it's money. The aftermath of the powerful ...
BOSTON (CBS) -- 24 state and local police officers from Massachusetts headed to Puerto Rico on Saturday to help with Hurricane Maria relief efforts. These officers are the first of 70 that will be ...
This Sunday, Puerto Ricans will vote — in a nonbinding referendum -- on whether or not they want to become the 51st state of the U.S. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans are U.S ...
About 40,000 Puerto Ricans lived in Suffolk County in 2015, according to the US Census Bureau. Dennys Gonzalez, 25, greeted the parade as it reached its end at Franklin Park, near Columbus Avenue ...
“We still haven’t communicated with our family in Puerto Rico,” says Jennifer. And the Boston family is particularly worried about the oldest relative on the island — Nereida Franceschini Colon. She’s ...
Jaylen Brown, estrella de los #Celtics de Boston, en Puerto Rico luego del All-Star Game. Primera visita a la isla en busca realizar actividades benéficas en el futuro. #NBA pic.twitter.com ...
Local Puerto Rican leaders are calling for a coordinated effort to get donations of money and supplies from across the state to cities and remote parts of the hurricane-ravaged U.S. territory ...