Day after day, it helped Allied codebreakers read Nazi military communications that were never supposed to be read.

In the 1970s, Puerto Ricans came to represent 10% of New York City’s population. But while the diaspora searched for its ...

Click to open image viewer. This drum shares its name with a musical genre, dance, and poetry; all are known as bomba, which means drum. The handmade drum voices the rhythms of afrochoteños, or ...

"Bambulaé be it now,” (Bambulaé sea ya) someone called out from a window on a street in New Haven, Connecticut. To Kevin Díaz Rodríguez´s surprise, the director of Movimiento Cultural Afro-Continental ...

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was never going to be just about music. Long before he stepped onto the field, the performance had already become a proxy battle in America’s ongoing culture war — ...

The inhabitants of San Juan aren’t early risers. At 9am, the city’s streets are largely empty. In the Plaza Colón, there’s a cockerel scrabbling about in the flower beds. A kiosk selling coffee and ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The inhabitants of San Juan aren’t early risers. At 9am, the city’s streets are largely empty. In the Plaza Colón, there’s a cockerel ...

Bomba is still a music of rebellion, used to criticise the government or call for independence from the US, of which Puerto Rico has been an unincorporated territory since 1898. But it’s become a ...

Click to open image viewer. This drum shares its name with a musical genre, dance, and poetry; all are known as bomba, which means drum. The handmade drum voices the rhythms of afrochoteños, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The love for Puerto Rico is going deep at the Latin Grammys. Rauw Alejandro took the stage Thursday night to perform a medley of ...

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Roots in bomba music run deep in Puerto Rico – all the way back to African slaves playing drums on plantations. These musical conversations were passed down for generations and helped inspire much of ...