Contributed by Charles R. Venator-Santiago Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans|Connecticut Creating a Collective Agenda Connecticut Legislative Office Building Saturday, 11 January 2025 As the UConnPRSI has documented, Puerto Ricans consistently experience the highest inequalities among all racial and ethnic groups in the state in the state of Connecticut. The goal of this inaugural summit was to […]

Contributed by Charles R. Venator-Santiago               Congress possesses the constitutional power to unilaterally enact legislation abolishing birthright citizenship in the United States territories. While Congress cannot unilaterally enact legislation stripping persons born in a U.S. territory of their birthright citizenship, it can enact a statute that prevents persons from […]

Contributed by Bessy Reyna  I can’t remember when I first learned about El Instituto. Sadly, when I was a grad student at UCONN (1970-72 MA) and a PhD candidate later, there were no Latino groups I could be involved with. The Puerto Rican Center was the first of the student centers to be created. I […]

Contributed by Anne Gebelein  El Instituto and the Human Rights Institute hosted filmmakers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís February 12th for a showing of their new documentary “Borderland: The Line Within”.   Pamela Yates is the Founder and Creative Director, and Paco de Onís the Executive Director and Executive Producer of Skylight, a non-profit media […]

Contributed by Apoliana da Conceição dos Santos With the support of travel funding of El Instituto, I attended and presented at the II Congresso Nacional de Linguística Aplicada (CONALA) & I Congresso Internacional de Linguagem, Literatura e Discurso (CILLID) in Maranhão, Brazil. My presentation, “XIX-Century Brazilian and Cuban Racial Realities: Aluísio Azevedo’s Mulatto and Manzano’s […]