Sentence examples for rican community from inspiring English sources

The city has the second-largest Puerto Rican community in the country, after New York.

North Philadelphia has a large African American and Puerto Rican community.

"This project is a legacy for the Puerto Rican community," Ms. Santana said.

This was the capital, the heart of the Puerto Rican community".

Aspira, a Puerto Rican community group, provided buses for about 200 parents.

When the family moved to Crown Heights, she wandered there, too, entranced by the neighborhood's Puerto Rican community.

In the late 20th century a small Puerto Rican community took shape in Wilmington, and Guatemalans began migrating to Sussex county to work in the poultry industry.

Illich's work as a priest took him in 1951 to New York City, where he became involved with the local Puerto Rican community.

Mr. Colon was chairman of the Puerto Rican Community Development Project, an antipoverty program for Hispanics in the 1960's, and was appointed New York Police Department chaplain in 1988, the first Hispanic to hold the post.

According to its celebrants at La Bombazo, a festival on Brook Avenue and 158th Street in Morrisania, it is a seminal instrument for political protest and cultural affirmation within the Puerto Rican community.

Mr. Menendez said the Navy's behavior "ignited a firestorm that is much bigger than the Puerto Rican community" and led many Hispanics to conclude, "that could be me next".