Paseo Podcast: Sharing Puerto Rican Stories
Society & Culture
The Puerto Rican Flags here in Chicago turn 25! Located in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, they act as gateways to Puerto Rican culture on Paseo Boricua. They're huge too! These two 59-foot banderas have won countless architectural awards and are the world's largest monument to a flag. Our guest on today's episode, CEO of the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture and former Alderman at the time, Billy Ocasio, played a key role in getting the flags built along with former Congressman Luis Gutiérrez and former Mayor Richard M. Daley. Billy takes us back in time to January 6, 1995 to understand how these flags came to be and shares what he thinks they represent for the future.
Host: Joshua Smyser-DeLeon, Twitter @jsdeleon
Site: paseomedia.org
Facebook & Twitter: @paseopodcast
Sounds: Notification Sounds + Flor Meléndez Ramos + Adobe
National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture Twitter, Facebook, Website
Puerto Rican Cultural Center
BONUS: Latinx LGBTQ GOTV Commercial Press Conference
Episode 35: Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa on His Puerto Rican Roots, Public Service & Democratic Socialism
Episode 34: Marina Del Rios, MD, MS on Covid-19 & IL Unidos
Episode 33: Presidential Debate + Puerto Rican Cultural Center Business Initiatives
Episode 32: El Grito de Lares + the Breonna Taylor Indictment
Episode 31: Visual Artist Carlos Rolón
Episode 30: Alli Arocho & Honoring the Vejigante Mask-Making Tradition
Episode 29: John Vasquez Mejias & The Puerto Rican War
Episode 28: Rosa Clemente on Identity, Resistance & Fighting for Justice in the Face of Oppression
Quarantine Bonus: Comic Book Writer, Vita Ayala
Quarantine Bonus: Media Activism in Puerto Rico
Episode 27: A Puerto Rican Birthday in Quarantine
BONUS: Census 2020
Episode 26: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) & Puerto Rico
Episode 25: IL Elections with State Sen. Iris Martinez & Cook County Circuit Court Judge Candidates
Episode 24: Community As A Campus with Dr. Jonathan Rosa & José López
Episode 23: Healing Jodonas with Melissa Cintron & Dorian Ortega
BONUS: Report from the Illinois Delegation to Puerto Rico (PR Agenda Press Conference)
Episode 22: Jaiku Neoj + Somos Arte
BONUS: Cook County Assessor, Fritz Kaegi
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