The Puerto Rican Cultural Center is a community-based, grassroots, educational, health, and cultural services organization founded on the principles of self-determination, self-actualization, and self-sufficiency that is activist-oriented.

Entrevista de José E. López Director Ejecutivo para Univision Chicago Puerto Rican Cultural Center. These materials include scans of the front-page Puerto Rican independence movement. He has served on various Boards including Bethany/Advocate Fund Board and presently on the Chicago Public Schools Latino Advisory Committee to CEO Barbara Byrd Bennett.He is an important voice for policy and legislative reform working closely with the former Alderman Billy Ocasio, Alderman Roberto Maldonado, Cook County Commissioner Edwin Reyes, State Representative Cynthia Soto, State Senators William Delgado and Iris Martínez and Congressman Luis V. Gutiérrez. In 1959, his family moved to Chicago as part of the massive Puerto Rican migration to the United States.

Executive director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago and brother of Oscar López Rivera. Jose Lopez, executive director of the Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center, joined ABC 7 live while parade preparations were still underway. There is much that has been collected in Chicago, but much more outside of Chicago, in the Puerto Rican Diaspora and in Puerto Rico that has not been gathered; how we make use of this existing documentation and the means of its publication available at that time, for present and future use, should only inspire us to move this immense task forward.Another such collection is the Roberto Clemente Community Academy Collection, consisting of materials from the political witch hunt (late 1980s to early 2000) by the US government, FBI, and reactionary elements against indigenous Puerto Rican activists and institutions, with the larger aim of intimidating and destroying community activism and forcing the continued unjust incarceration of Puerto Rican political prisoners. He said it will bring outside financial investment to the community that isn’t otherwise available. 2546 W. Division St. • Chicago, IL 60622 O: (773) 394-4935 • … Agüeros, Jack Inclusive Dates: 1971 Volume (cu. Story Jan 18, 2017. It is a veritable treasure trove of PDFbooks, booklets and writings over the last three decades encompassing, although by no means comprehensively, publications and articles by and about the Puerto Rican Cultural Center (PRCC), Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School (PACHS) and National Boricua Human Rights Network (NBHRN) and its predecessor, the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners.The publications were collected, and in some cases written by, PRCC staff and NBHRN membership, but also, where indicated, by collaborators, partners and “co-conspirators” in the different areas of work of the PRCC–gentrification, health inequity, the digital divide, educational reform–and its implementation of community-driven solutions to the issues presented.An important aside: many articles and monographs written by PRCC and NBHRN collaborators are used here by permission but retain their respective copyrights. Also in the folder are: archival copies of newspapers, university newsletters, international tribunal organizing material (including a complete copy of USA on Trial ); extensive collections of articles on Puerto Rican political prisoners throughout the 35+ year campaign to free them;The PRCC thanks all individual authors for permission to use their writings, and the following institutions for digital copies of their publications:There are collections represented in the Publications Folder that are not visually organized, yet are complete.