Portuguese American Journal

Portuguese American Journal

Featured Stories
Community | PALCUS celebrates 35th Anniversary with a Leadership Awards Gala in Ponta Delgada Arts Diplomacy | President António José Seguro to meet Pope Leo XIV Diplomacy | Prime Minister Luís Montenegro to address the  81st UN General Assembly Community | Nazaré and Half Moon Bay to establish sister-city partnership
 

Community | PALCUS celebrates 35th Anniversary with a Leadership Awards Gala in Ponta Delgada – Azores

The Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States (PALCUS) prepares to celebrate its 35th anniversary and 28th Annual Leadership Awards Gala on October 17 at the Coliseu Micaelense in Ponta Delgada, Azores. For the first time in the organization’s history, the PALCUS Leadership Awards Gala will be held outside the continental United States, bringing […]

Arts & Letters | Portugal Takes Center Stage at Lincoln Center – New York, NY

Portuguese culture will take center stage at New York City’s Lincoln Center on Saturday, October 3, with a full day of cinema, literature and live music featuring acclaimed Luso-American writer Katherine Vaz, Portuguese musical performances by Expresso Transatlântico and The Gift, and a festival of Portuguese animated short films. The program, titled “Contemporary Portugal at […]

Diplomacy | President António José Seguro to meet Pope Leo XIV – Vatican

Portugal’s President, António José Seguro, arrived in Rome on Wednesday, September 23, for a two-day official visit to the Holy See, with an audience with Pope Leo XIV scheduled for Thursday, September 24, at 9:00 a.m. local time at the Vatican.  The Portuguese Presidency confirms that the official visit program also includes talks with Archbishop […]

Diplomacy | Prime Minister Luís Montenegro to address the  81st UN General Assembly – New York, NY

Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro will travel to New York from September 22 to 24 to represent Portugal at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. On Thursday, September 24, Montenegro is expected to deliver Portugal’s national address to the Assembly at approximately 2:15 p.m. New York time. The theme for this year’s […]

Community | Nazaré and Half Moon Bay to establish sister-city partnership – California

The Municipality of Nazaré, Portugal, and the City of Half Moon Bay, California, are moving forward with a new sister-city partnership designed to strengthen ties between two coastal communities united by the sea, maritime traditions, tourism, Portuguese heritage and an international reputation for big-wave surfing. On July 21, 2026, the Half Moon Bay City Council […]

Book |Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa| by Natalia Telepneva – Editor’s Note

06 June 2022

Cold War Liberation examines the African revolutionaries who led armed struggles in three Portuguese colonies — Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau — and their liaisons in Moscow, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia. By reconstructing a multidimensional story that focuses on both the impact of the Soviet Union on the end of the Portuguese Empire in Africa […]

Read the full story

Posted in Angola, Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Guiné-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, World

June 6: Azorean people celebrate political and administrative and self-rule – Azores

06 June 2022

This year, on June 6, the people of the Azores celebrate “Azores Day” or  “Dia da Região Autónoma dos Açores” [Day of the Autonomous Region of the Azores], a public holiday, observed throughout the archipelago, to honor self-rule, identity and pride, the “affirmation of the identity of the Azorean people, their philosophy of life and […]

Read the full story

Posted in Azores, Corvo, Faial, Featured, Flores, Graciosa, Pico, Portugal, Santa Maria, São Jorge, São Miguel, Terceira, World

Travel: Delta Air Lines direct flights from New York to Lisbon – New York, NY

02 June 2022

Delta Air Lines is now offering daily direct flights between New York/JFK and Lisbon throughout the year, and between Boston and Lisbon throughout the summer starting June 03, 2022. Accordingly, in total, Delta will offer 14 weekly flights between Portugal and the US this summer, offering 440 daily seats in the peak season months, including […]

Read the full story

Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Portugal, São Miguel, Terceira, Travel, World

Sete Cidades: ‘Atlantis Concert for the Earth’ broadcast to the world – Azores

01 June 2022

The music festival, Atlantis Concert for Earth, will be held on July 22 and 23, in Lagoas das Sete Cidades, on São Miguel Island, Azores, from the pristine natural amphitheater, inside the ancient volcano crater where the last eruption occurred in 1880. Nestled along the two stunning lakes, the star-studded lineup for the environmental-themed concert […]

Read the full story

Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, Organizations, People, São Miguel, World

June 1: Google Doodle celebrates Almada Negreiros – Portugal

01 June 2022

Google Doodle is celebrating today, June 1, José de Almada Negreiros (1893-1970) considered one of the most relevant Portuguese and European artists of the 20th century. On this day in 1911, Almada Negreiros made his artistic debut at the age of 18 when he published a cartoon entitled “Uma Razão de Peso” in the 4th […]

Read the full story

Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal

Book |Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir| by Cody Caetano – Editor’s Note

31 May 2022

A family tries to learn from the mistakes of past generations in this whirlwind memoir from a wholly original new voice. The Caetano’s move into a doomed house in the highway village of Happyland before an inevitable divorce pulls Cody’s parents in separate directions. His mom, Mindimooye, having discovered her Anishinaabe birth family and Sixties […]

Read the full story

Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World

« Newer Entries
Older Entries »

Follow Us

facebook twitter