As part of its 31 Stories for 31 Days of Hispanic Heritage Month, PBS took a look at the history and importance of bomba.
Witness the unstoppable joy of dancing bomba, Puerto Rico’s Afro-Puerto Rican dance of resistance. Meet sisters Mar and María Cruz who are dedicated to the dance and its legacy of survival, and trace some of the communities where bomba is at its most vibrant, from the Santurce area of San Juan, to Loíza, the bastion of Afro-Puerto Rican culture across the Rio Grande.
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Source: https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/10/17/puerto-ricos-bomba-a-dance-of-the-african-diaspora/