After The Storm: Stories of Puerto Rican Resilience
Sep 20, 2018
One year after Hurricane Maria, The Takeaway travels to Puerto Rico to explore how identity has changed on the island.
Projects
After The Storm: One Year Later Puerto Ricans Reflect
All this week, our host Tanzina Vega is reporting from Puerto Rico to survey the state of the recovery from Maria one year later. This project is supported in part by the Puerto Rico Relief & Rebuilding Fund of the Partnership for New York City.
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"I Will Fight Colonialism Until My Last Breath": Longtime Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera Speaks Out, One Year After Maria
Sep 19, 2018Oscar López Rivera, longtime Puerto Rican independence activist, talks about the effects of U.S. colonialism. -
Young Puerto Rican Journalists Work to Tell Their Own Story
Sep 18, 2018Almost one year since Hurricane Maria made landfall, we talk to a journalism student, at the University of the Sacred Heart, about the role of the media after the storm. -
"All The Bodies Started Stacking Up": A Funeral Director Remembers the Dead from Hurricane Maria
Sep 17, 2018All this week, our host Tanzina Vega is reporting from Puerto Rico to survey the state of the recovery from Maria one year later.
