Colorful street in Santurce Puerto Rico, formerly San Mateo de Cangrejos, a historic free Black town. Discover Puerto Rico’s Lost Black Town What if I told you there’s a neighborhood in Puerto Rico where self emancipated Africans built one of the first free Black towns in the Americas in the 1600s, and almost nobody knows about it? Not the tour guides. Not the history books. Not even the people living there today. This story stayed buried for 160 years. But it refused to die.

Afro-Puerto Rican History · Diaspora Reconnection San Mateo de Cangrejos, Part 1 November 29, 2022. The closing. The realtor handed me the stone lion I’d requested. I wasn’t playing about that lion. August 27, 2021. 1:32 PM. I wasn’t looking for anything that day. Just walking back from The Parq, my coworking spot in Santurce, taking a new route. The heat was thick. Humid. The kind where your shirt sticks before you even notice you’re sweating. Kendrick’s Mr. Morale & The Big