Word: rican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Minority groups began the year with a display of unity last night as approximately 50 students from a number of organizations joined La O to observe El Grito de Lares, a celebration of Puerto Rican culture and history...
Representatives of the Black Student Association and Raza-the Mexican-American student organization-joined the commemoration, which began with a traffic-blocking candlelight march from Lowell House. Marchers carried Puerto Rican flags and were accompanied by a stereo playing traditional music...
...Grito de Lares, which means "the scream of Lares," commemorates a brief Puerto Rican revolution against Spanish rule in 1868. Although the revolution was unsuccessful at the time, Puerto Ricans remember its leaders with great pride, speakers said...
Fifty-one of those are what the office calls "underrepresented" minority groups: Black, Chicano, Native American or Puerto Rican...
...know Bosch from Beethoven, but they all know Marciulionis. This past season as the Golden State Warrior's sixth man, he was fourth in the N.B.A. in points scored for minutes played. "He is the most exciting player I have seen in the tournament so far," said Puerto Rican coach Raymond Dalmau Perez, who at that point had not had to face Jordan...