HISTORY
In 1969, this group of Puerto Rican activists founded a political and cultural organization aimed at empowering the Nuyorican community.
Who are the Young Lords?
A person of Puerto Rican descent residing in/from New York City
What is Nuyorican?
This Lin-Manuel Miranda musical highlights a powerful hispanic community taking place in Washington Heights, a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
What is In The Heights
This iconic (yet controversial) Nuyorican actress starred in Selena and Out of Sight and is known for her roles in both romantic comedies and action films.
Who is JLO?
Where was the Puerto Rican flag made?
What is Chimney Hall in New York?
A word meaning "let's hang out"
What is Hangear?
This 1957 Broadway musical, later turned into a film, is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in 1950s New York City, focusing on gang rivalry between the Sharks and the Jets.
What is West Side Story?
She is the first Latina on the Supreme Court, from the Bronx and also Puerto Rican.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
This Puerto Rican borough is home to the largest concentration of Nuyoricans in the U.S.
What is the Bronx?
A term used to express excitement, congratulations, and joy, similar to the English Oh yeah!, Wow!
What is Wepa?
This group inspired the popular Bad Bunny song "NUEVAYoL" with this song!
*give song & group*
Who are El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico and Un Verano en Nueva York?
This Puerto Rican poet was a co-founder of the Nuyorican Movement and wrote the poem "The Puerto Rican obituary which depicts the struggles of Puerto Rican immigrants in the United States, facing alienation, poverty, and the loss of their cultural identity.
Who is Pedro Pietri?
This 1960s -1970s New York movement, which emerged from the city’s Puerto Rican neighborhoods at a time in the US where movements for civil rights, anti-war protests, and the rise of countercultural movements emerged, emphasized pride in Latinx identity through art, music, and poetry.
What is the Nuyorican Movement?
This Puerto Rican term, refers to a foul odor/something smelly and rotten.
What is abombao?
In the music video of this song by Marc Anthony, the artist depicts a live block party in Spanish Harlem and perfectly highlights Nuyorican culture and pride.
What is Vivir Mi Vida?
The "Queen of Salsa," born in the Bronx, became an iconic voice in Latin music with songs like "Quimbara" and "La Vida Es un Carnaval."
Who is Celia Cruz?
*bonus points for who can guess her ethnicity*
This cafe, located in the East Village of Manhattan and founded in 1973 served as a home for groundbreaking works of poetry, music, theater and visual arts and champions the use of poetry, jazz, theater, hip-hop and spoken word as means of social empowerment for minority and underprivileged artist.
What is the Nuyorican Poets Café?
This Puerto Rican/Dominican phrase is another word for a brown-noser?
What is lambeojo?
This term is both a dance of the 1960s in Harlem and also a genre of Latin music developed by Puerto Rican musicians in New York City in the mid-1960s that fused Latin and R&B / soul rhythms.
What is Boogaloo?
This influential Nuyorican singer-songwriter, born in the Bronx, is known for blending Latin rock, salsa, and jazz, with hits like “Oye Como Va.”
Who is Tito Puente?