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This edition: Season 2/Episode 24: Chicago





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Episode Details

First aired: July 3, 2018.

Founded in 1998, the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance of Chicago (PRAA) was created to raise awareness, knowledge, and access to the Puerto Ricans stateside.

Meet the Chicago bomba group Buya. This Chicago-based ensemble aims to preserve and enhance the bomba tradition, in an attempt to create bridges of communication between the diaspora and their roots in the island of Puerto Rico.

We present you the Puerto Rico Cultural Center operating out of Chicago, Illinois. First organizing itself during the tumultuous times of early 1970s Chicago, the Center rose out of the necessity of immediate assistance for the community. 

  • About this series

  • Puerto Rican Voices is an investigative TV documentary series about colonialism in Puerto Rico. In the aftermath of hurricane María, the island has struggled to get back on its feet, and instead of getting more prepared in the wake of climate change, Puerto Rico finds itself in an even more fragile state. It is within this environment that the government puts forward a privatization agenda, providing unprecedented tax breaks to investors. This five-part series explores the energy crisis, pollution, displacement, and economic precarity, resulting from a decade-long recession, and the aftershocks of hurricane María. Looking at the intersections of resilience, and resistance, Puerto Rican Voices provides a map to the ongoing issues of Puerto Rico. 

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