Understanding Puerto Rico’s 'Existential Crisis'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 7, 2021

Alana Casanova-Burgess, host of La Brega, and reporter and producer for WNYC's On the Media, and Yarimar Bonilla, professor of Puerto Rican Studies and Anthropology at the City University of New York, monthly columnist at El Nuevo Día, and incoming director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, talk about how Puerto Ricans are weighing the many options for a new political future of the island.

→ EVENT: Alana and Professor Bonilla will be in a virtual discussion with several other big thinkers on this topic on April 8th from 7-8PM. The event is free, to sign up click here.

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