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Community | FBI raids Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s home and office  Community | Diaspora mobilizes to join storm relief effort Teolinda Gersão | Narrative talent transcending literary boundaries Social Media | Parliament proposes bill requiring parental consent for minors Update | Persistent severe downpouring forces evacuations
 

Community | FBI raids Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s home and office – Los Angeles, CA

Federal authorities have executed search warrants at the residence and district office of Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), as part of an ongoing investigation led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). According to federal officials, agents carried out “court-authorized search warrants” at Carvalho’s home in the San Pedro […]

Community | Diaspora mobilizes to join storm relief effort – Portugal

The Portuguese American communities across the United States are mobilizing in solidarity with families and municipalities in Portugal, affected by a succession of severe rainstorms that have caused fatalities, widespread flooding, infrastructure damage, and displacement across several regions.  Relief authorities in Portugal report significant impacts on housing, local businesses, agriculture, and public infrastructure, underscoring the […]

Teolinda Gersão | Narrative talent transcending literary boundaries – Interview

By Maria Duran On the 29th of October, 2025, Portuguese writer Teolinda Gersão became a second-time winner of the APE-DGLAB Romance and Novel Grand Prize. Autobiografia não escrita de Martha Freud (2024), [The Unwritten Autobiography of Martha Freud], published by Porto Editora, earned her the 43rd edition of the award, organized by the Portuguese Writers […]

Social Media | Parliament proposes bill requiring parental consent for minors – Portugal

Portugal’s parliament has approved legislation that would restrict minors’ access to social media platforms by requiring parental authorization for users under the age of 16, making it one of Europe’s most concrete legislative steps toward regulating youth activity online. The proposal, introduced by the Social Democratic Party (PSD), mandates explicit, verified parental consent for minors […]

Update | Persistent severe downpouring forces evacuations – Portugal

Heavy and persistent rainfall continues to affect mainland Portugal as successive Atlantic systems prolong saturated ground conditions and heighten flood risk across several regions, forcing evacuations. Prime Minister Luís Montenegro described the extreme weather episodes as a “devastating crisis” affecting communities across the country while emphasizing that emergency coordination and recovery efforts continue nationwide. Mário […]

Portugal: António Guterres elected World Top Diplomat by acclamation – United Nations, UN

06 October 2016

The 15-member United Nations Security Council unanimously nominated former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres the next Secretary-General of the organization, starting January 1, 2017. Guterres was nominated today “by acclamation” following a final straw poll by the Security Council, on Wednesday, recommending that the 193-member General Assembly appoint him for the five-year term post. Guterres, […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World

Book: ‘Entertaining Lisbon’ by João Silva – Editor’s Note

03 October 2016

During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material improvements under the guise of modernization while in the midst of a significant political transformation — the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. Urban planning, everyday life, and innovation merged in a rapidly changing Lisbon. Leisure activities for the citizens of the First Republic […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Entertainment, Featured, Portugal

Book: ‘Reading Henry James’ by George Monteiro – Editor’s Note

01 October 2016

Reading Henry James: A Critical Perspective on Selected Works, looks to allusions, sources, echoes and affinities in the author’s vast body of work as critical ways to discover and interpret his artistic purposes and literary intentions. It ranges over the vast corpus of his fiction, including stories, novelas and novels published in the leading journals […]

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

Conference: Fado as a musical genre by Rui Vieira Nery – UMass Lowell, MA

24 September 2016

The UMass Lowell Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research, in partnership with the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and the departments of Music and World Languages and Cultures, presents a lecture, Portuguese Fado: Two Hundred Years of a Musical Genre, by Dr. Rui Vieira Nery, director of the Portuguese Language and […]

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Posted in Conferences, Education, Featured, Heritage, Portugal

Community: Dr. Edward Leitão Scholarships for Medical Students – Cambridge, MA

24 September 2016

The Dr. Edward Leitão Memorial Scholarship Fund is now accepting applications for scholarships from Portuguese-American medical students and physicians in training, following the fund’s goal of filling the need among the community for Portuguese-speaking medical professionals. The fund is offering up to two scholarships of $1,500 each, and the deadline for submission of applications is […]

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Posted in Awards, Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, Scholarships

Margie Vieira: From Dairy Farmer to Novelist – Interview

22 September 2016

Interview by Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) A Portuguese-American writer, author Margie Vieira was born in Northern California and grew up on a dairy farm. Her family has roots in Terceira, Azores, from where her parents immigrated to California in the 1960’s. Ms. Vieira is happily married to who she claims is “a most patient man.” Together, they […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, Interviews, Life Style, People, Terceira

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