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La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience

La Brega

WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios

Podcast, Puerto, San, Historia, La, De, Vieques, Juan, Rico, Society & Culture, Levittown, Noticias, Brega

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 1 minutes

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WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios present “La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience”: a seven-part podcast series that uses narrative storytelling and investigative journalism to reflect and reveal how la brega has defined so many aspects of life in Puerto Rico. Available in English and Spanish. Creado por un equipo de periodistas, productores, músicos y artistas boricuas; presentado por Alana Casanova-Burgess. Coming February 24.

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0:00.0

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There's an expression Puerto Ricans use all the time.

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Estad in La Brega. We use it to describe time. Is that in La Brega?

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We use it to describe how we're feeling,

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what we're doing, and for many, it's another way of saying,

0:18.0

the struggle.

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Grinding.

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La Brega, it's not just a word, it's a state of mind. grinding. and maybe where we're headed. In sports, we get this opportunity to be Puerto Rico,

0:36.2

the country from the Caribbean.

0:38.0

That we send a message that their lives matter. La Guerra, a la Guerra, a la Guerra.

0:45.0

A line of the future.

0:46.0

A country of the future.

0:48.0

It's greater, but that's the brega in Puerto Rico.

0:50.0

Lager, stories of the Puerto Rican experience.

0:55.9

A seven-part podcast available in English and Spanish.

0:59.4

About Puerto Ricans, by Puerto Ricans.

1:02.1

Co-produced by WNY studios and Futuro studios.

1:06.0

In La Brega, showcasing our true Puerto Rican brilliance.

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