Portuguese American Journal

Portuguese American Journal

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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 […]

Book: ‘Azorean Dreams’ by Sue Fagalde Lick – Editor’s Note

08 June 2016

A Portuguese-American romance: Newspaper reporter Chelsea Faust spends most of her spare time in the darkroom and runs marathons for fun. She’s working for a small weekly newspaper now, but she has big ambitions. At 28, she lives alone and lets no one tell her what to do, much to the chagrin of her Portuguese-American […]

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

Honor: Massachusets distinguishes historian José de Almeida Mello – Boston, MA

07 June 2016

Azorean historian José de Almeida Mello was honored, June 7, by the Massachusetts State House. The ceremony took place at the House of Representatives presided by the President of the Senate, Stan Rosenberg, the Speaker of the House, Robert A. DeLeo, the Deputy Governor, Karyn Polito, and Charlie Baker the State Governor. Every year, on the […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Interviews, Organizations, People, São Miguel, World

Travel: United Airlines boosting connections between Lisbon and more US capitals – Portugal

07 June 2016

United Airlines has added Washington, DC, to its daily direct routes between Lisbon with connections to many other US capitals. The 8-hour daily flight will be carried out in a Boeing 757-200 with 169 seats. United Airlines has been operating for many years the route between Lisbon Airport and New York, Newark. Currently United Airlines […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, Travel, World

The Week: Cuts in fishing quota to send sardine prices soaring – by Len Port

04 June 2016

By Len Port, Contributor (*) You may have missed World Digestive Health Day organized on 29 May each year by the World Gastroenterology Organization, but more than 43,000 food bank volunteers turned up at supermarkets across Portugal on that day to collect food for distribution among 426,000 of the nation’s hungry. Many other relevant statistics […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Food & Wine, Life Style, People, Portugal, World

Travel: TAP Portugal and JetBlue to codeshare flights from New York and Boston – Portugal

03 June 2016

TAP Portugal and JetBlue signed an agreement on June 1 to codeshare non-stop flights to Lisbon, Portugal, from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International and Boston’s Logan International. The codeshare will allow TAP Portugal to service 30 US-Lisbon non-stop flights a week, providing its customers access to the low-cost JetBlue network, the largest domestic airline […]

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Book: ‘Men Who Migrate, Women Who Wait’ – Editor’s Note

03 June 2016

An analysis is presented of the parish of Lanheses, a northern Portuguese village particularly affected by large-scale peasant emigration, from 1700 to the present day. The author “combines demographic analysis and historical and ethnographic methods to explore its long history of predominantly male emigration, high illegitimacy rates, late marriage, moderated fertility, and frequency of female […]

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