Meet the Author on Zoom: Sabrina Vourvoulias
Taller Puertorriqueño 2600 N. 5th Street, PhiladelphiaNuestra América highlights thirty inspiring Latina/o/xs throughout history and their extraordinary contributions to the cultural, social, and political character of the United States. As we journey with each figure, we discover more about their cultural background, childhood, and the challenges they met in pursuit of their goals. The book is a must-have for teachers looking […]
Closed for Christmas
Taller Puertorriqueño 2600 N. 5th Street, PhiladelphiaClosed for the holiday.
Closed for New Year’s Day
Taller Puertorriqueño 2600 N. 5th Street, PhiladelphiaClosed for the holiday.
Closed for Martin Luther King Day
Taller Puertorriqueño 2600 N. 5th Street, PhiladelphiaClosed in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
Covid-19: A Color Canvas of Inequality
Taller Puertorriqueño 2600 N. 5th Street, PhiladelphiaThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused the deaths of over 350,000 people in the US since December 2020, testing our health and economic system that supports our localities. Highlighting the stark inequities in health provided to the Black and Brown communities. This year's symposium addresses the impact of COVID-19 on African descent communities that are the […]
MTA – A.K. Sandoval-Strausz’s BARRIO AMERICA: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
Taller Puertorriqueño 2600 N. 5th Street, PhiladelphiaMeet the Author on Zoom In his new book, BARRIO AMERICA: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City, award-winning historian and son of immigrants A.K. Sandoval-Strausz challenges the idea that the so-called “Creative Class” was most responsible for reviving the city. He argues instead that it was actually Latino newcomers who most dramatically transformed entire city neighborhoods. Drawing on […]
Closed for the Holiday
Taller Puertorriqueño 2600 N. 5th Street, PhiladelphiaTaller is Closed for Good Friday. Will reopen on Saturday.
Meet the Author on Zoom / Gente de Sal: Vida e Identidad
Taller Puertorriqueño 2600 N. 5th Street, PhiladelphiaJoin us for an intimate conversation with archaeologists Ann Peters and Yolanda Carbajal Zuniga on life in Cuzco, its history, cultural legacy, and the people of Maras. The conversation will take place in Spanish and English. Yolanda Carbajal Zuniga, from a Quechua speaking family, lives in Cusco. She is a graduate in archeology from the National […]
Meet the Author on Zoom: Ed Morales’ Latinx
Taller Puertorriqueño 2600 N. 5th Street, PhiladelphiaPart social history, part political theory, part philosophical reflection, and part memoir, Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture is a book about Latino racial identity. It describes how migration to the U.S. has affected the country’s racial black-white binary and fleshes out implications of Latinx racial identity in new ideas about language, […]
Ricardo Alegría: His Cultural Legacy
Taller Puertorriqueño 2600 N. 5th Street, PhiladelphiaJoin us for a virtual presentation by Dr. Carmen Dolores Hernández on Ricardo Alegría, who widened our understanding of what it means to be Puerto Rican. His pioneering scholarship showed us the essential elements of Puerto Rican culture. In the first half of the twentieth century, academia did not acknowledge Puerto Rican culture and identity. His writings on African and indigenous history and folklore and […]