23 August 2018
The Portuguese American community of Fall River (MA) is celebrating the 32st Holy Ghost Festival of New England, underway this weekend through August 29. The festival is held every year on the last weekend of August. The event has become one of the largest Portuguese celebrations in the United States and the one of the […]
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23 August 2018
A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation. Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839–1908)―the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves―was hailed in his lifetime […]
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22 August 2018
Democrat Lori Loureiro Trahan, of Portuguese descent, is running for Congress in the Massachusetts 3rd Congressional District. She is representing Lowell in the primary elections, to succeed US Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell). Lowell, with a population of 106,000, is the largest city in the Merrimack Valley-based district with a large community of Portuguese and Brazilian […]
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12 August 2018
By Cristina Ogden An exhibition of anthotypes by Toronto-based artist Teresa Ascencao is the focus of Daily Bread, running at the Workers Art & Heritage Centre in Hamilton, southern Ontario, until August 17, 2018. The exhibition features scenes from the Portuguese-Canadian immigrant community whose livelihoods have been characterized by physical labor. The works are influenced […]
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09 August 2018
The Director General of Health, Graça Freitas, said Wednesday that there were more than 500 dead, between Sunday and Tuesday (August 5, 6 and 7), that could be related to the heatwave that has hit the country in recent days. Stressing that it is necessary to determine the causes of these deaths, and exercise caution […]
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08 August 2018
I emigrated to the United States from Portugal at ten months of age, accompanied by my undocumented parents. I took my first steps here, in America. Later, I got my first driver’s license and my first job here. Ours is the nation where I have made lifelong friends, volunteered in my community, and crossed the […]
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