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  2. Head Start (program) - Wikipedia

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    Head Start serves over 1 million children and their families each year in urban and rural areas in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. territories. Related health services include health screenings and check-ups, eye examinations and dental check-ups. Meals and snacks are also provided, which can help ease ...

  3. Felisa Rincón de Gautier - Wikipedia

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    Felisa Rincón de Gautier [note 1] (née Rincón y Marrero), also known as Doña Fela, [1] (January 9, 1897 – September 16, 1994) was a Puerto Rican politician who served as the mayor of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

  4. Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños - Wikipedia

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    El Centro, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies or Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, is a university-based research institute whose mission is to produce, facilitate, and disseminate interdisciplinary research about the experiences of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. and to collect, preserve, and provide access to archival and library resources documenting the history and culture of Puerto Ricans.

  5. They're uncovering their ancestry — and questioning their ...

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    Giselle Rivera-Flores, a communications director in Worcester, Massachusetts, didn’t need a DNA test to know she was Afro Latina — her Puerto Rican family’s “Black skin and coarse hair ...

  6. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña - Wikipedia

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    At the restored Casa del Callejón, museums to the 19th Century Puerto Rican family and the city's colonial architecture were established in 1963. [67] That same year, a choral poesy program was created. [53] As early as 1964, the funding for cultural initiatives began declining, a situation that Alegría protested the following year. [75]

  7. Margarita Benítez - Wikipedia

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    She was the first woman to be appointed as head of the organization, which is dedicated to promoting knowledge and study about Puerto Rico. [20] [5] Under her leadership, the FPH launched the Enciclopedia PR (Online Encyclopedia of Puerto Rico) and the digital cultural archive, Cosecha Cultural. She served as director until 2022. [21]

  8. Puerto Rican voters rise as key bloc in 2024 - AOL

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    Puerto Rican voters have shot to center stage in national elections, marking a major shift for an electorate that was largely overlooked for a century. The voting bloc is at the center of national ...

  9. Félix V. Matos Rodríguez - Wikipedia

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    In 2000, Matos Rodríguez joined CUNY's Hunter College as a professor of Black and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies and served as the director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. The center is the only university-based research institute devoted to the interdisciplinary study of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States and houses one of ...