📚 Just finished reading: When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago (1993)
An autobiography, it is the first of three installments, followed by Almost a Woman and The Turkish Lover. Beginning with Santiago's life in Macún, a sector of Candelaria barrio in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, it details the circumstances that led to her mother bringing her and her siblings to New York and adjustment to life in America.
📚 Just finished reading: When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago (1993)
An autobiography, it is the first of three installments, followed by Almost a Woman and The Turkish Lover. Beginning with Santiago's life in Macún, a sector of Candelaria barrio in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, it details the circumstances that led to her mother bringing her and her siblings to New York and adjustment to life in America.
Today in Labor History September 14, 1843: Lola Rodríguez de Tió, Puerto Rican poet, abolitionist, and women's rights activist was born. She and her husband became active in the movement against Spanish colonialism on the island. In 1889, the Spanish authorities banished them for their political activities. In exile in New York, she worked with Cuban revolutionary, Jose Marti, for Cuban independence from Spain. She wrote the lyrics for the anthem, La Boriquena. Many believe that the Puerto Rican flag came from her idea of having the same colors as the Cuban flag, but reversed.