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Bad BunnyBad Bunny Makes History as First Male Latin American Artist to Headline Super Bowl Halftime ShowBad Bunny is front and center in global news this week, making history as the first male Latin American artist to headline the Super Bowl halftime show in 2026. The NFL’s announcement last month set off a frenzy, with experts from Temple University highlighting that his performance—planned mostly in Spanish at Levi’s Stadium in California—will mark a powerful cultural moment for both Latin American and U.S. audiences. According to Temple Now, Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime will serve as both a “visual and musical love letter to Puerto Rico and Latinidad,” expected to spotlight Puerto Rican identity...
2025-10-2603 min
What's On TapVoices of Culture: Bad Bunny, QWERTYFEST & Wisconsin Fall FindsHour 1 kicks off with a vibrant mix of arts, culture, and community: we preview the final Milwaukee Night Market of the season, dive into Bad Bunny's cultural impact with historian Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, and explore how he used music to spotlight Puerto Rican history—before spinning a track you need to hear.
In Hour 2, OnMilwaukee’s Molly Snyder joins us live to celebrate QWERTYFEST MKE—honoring the world-changing invention of the QWERTY keyboard, born right in Milwaukee. We dig into festival events, local pride, and some surprising keyboard trivia.
Hour 3 rounds out with fall fun: the best leaf-peeping spots, must-see Wiscons...
2025-10-011h 39What's On TapAmplifying Puerto Rican History with Bad Bunny: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo's Mind-Blowing CollaborationUW- Madison Historian Jorell Meléndez-Badillo joins us to share the inside story of his powerful collaboration with Bad Bunny. Tasked with creating 17 historical narratives to accompany the artist’s latest album, Jorell used the platform to highlight overlooked figures and moments in Puerto Rican history. From working with Benito’s team to having cultural and historical narratives from the collaboration presented before concerts. This mind-blowing experience pushed Puerto Rican history far beyond the classroom and into the global spotlight.
2025-10-0113 min
Less Time Than Ideas - Art Across the AmericasIN CONVERSATION: Discussing Pablo Delano's 'Caribbean Matters' at the Chazen Museum of ArtIn coversation with curators Jorell Meléndez-Badillo & Aurora Santiago Ortiz on the topic of Pablo Delano's seminal show at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Madison-Wisconsin.For more information on the exhibition: https://chazen.wisc.edu/exhibitions/caribbean-matters-cuestiones-caribenas-assemblage-and-sculpture-by-pablo-delano/https://art.newcity.com/2025/08/18/archipelago-of-resistance-a-review-of-pablo-delano-at-chazen-museum-of-art-at-the-university-of-wisconsin-madison/With thanks to Kirstin Pires at the Chazen Museum of Art.
2025-09-1026 min
All Of ItBad Bunny's DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS[REBROADCAST FROM Jan. 27, 2025] Earlier this year, Bad Bunny released his sixth studio album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, a tribute to the island of Puerto Rico. NPR producer and reporter Isabella Gomez Sarmiento joins us alongside University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, who collaborated on the album, to unpack its significance.
2025-05-2615 min
The TakeWhy did Bad Bunny's anthem to Puerto Rico strike a global chord?Bad Bunny’s new album, Debi Tirar Mas Fotos, became the number-one streamed album worldwide. It mixes different Puerto Rican music genres and touches on themes of gentrification and a loss of cultural identity. How is the album bringing the Puerto Rican fight for survival to the world? In this episode: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (@jorellmelendezb), Author of “Puerto Rico: A National History” Episode credits: This episode was produced by Marcos Bartolomé with Hanah Shokeir, Hagir Saleh, Melanie Marich and our guest host, Natasha Del Toro. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz. The Take p...
2025-02-1025 minAll Of ItThe Significance of Bad Bunny's 'DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS'Earlier this month, Bad Bunny released his sixth studio album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, a tribute to the island of Puerto Rico. NPR producer and reporter Isabella Gomez Sarmiento joins us alongside University of Wisconsin-Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, who collaborated on the album, to unpack the significance of the album.
2025-01-2724 min
The Moreish PodcastPuerto Rico: From Tainos to Today with Laura OrtizWe'd love to hear from you!Unveiling Puerto Rico: A Deep Dive into Culture, History, and IdentityIn this episode of The Moreish Podcast, Hema chats with Laura Ortiz, an historian and tour operator from Sofrito Tours, for an enlightening discussion on Puerto Rico's rich history and vibrant culture. In this episode they dive into the Taino people's matrilineal society and their tragic decline due to Spanish colonization, the introduction of enslaved African people, the encomienda system, and the drastic transitions under U.S. control. It highlights the mixed reactions to U.S...
2024-10-2234 min
Chicago Sunnyside PodcastCHI Sunnyside E22: Living Culture of PR & AfroCaribbean with SRBCC's Omar Torres & Jose GuzmanGet in touch with us. We love to hear from you!Chicagosunnyside.netHosts: Nehez Meniooh, Giziribtah Debasah & Kasabez MAAKMAAHGuests: Omar Torres & Jose GuzmanWe begin a series on the cultural diversity that exists within Chicago with the city’s longest standing Latino or AfroCaribbean cultural center, the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center. We speak to the executive director and one of the directors from the center about Puerto Rica’s culture, resistance and African roots as well as the cultural programming and education that SRBCC has brou...
2024-10-101h 29
The Deep DiveEpisode 195: Puerto Rico: A National History w/ Jorell Melendez-BadilloPhilip welcomes Jorell Melendez-Badillo author of Puerto Rico: A National History to the show. In their conversation they discuss the pre-colonial and colonial history of Puerto Rico and what the island nation teaches us about the legacy and current status of American Empire.
The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.
Phil's Drop:
Revolutionary Suicide - Huey P. Newton
Jorrell's Drop:
Puerto Rican Obituary - Pedro PietriSpecial Guest: Jorell Melendez-Badillo.
2024-06-2759 min
New Books in Early Modern HistoryJorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's people while offering a lens through which to understand the political, economic, and social challenges confronting them today.In this masterful work of scholarship, Meléndez-Badillo sheds light on the vibrant cultures of the archipelago in the centuries before the arrival of Columbus and captures the full sweep of Puerto Rico's tu...
2024-04-1644 min
New Books in American StudiesJorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's people while offering a lens through which to understand the political, economic, and social challenges confronting them today.In this masterful work of scholarship, Meléndez-Badillo sheds light on the vibrant cultures of the archipelago in the centuries before the arrival of Columbus and captures the full sweep of Puerto Rico's tu...
2024-04-1644 min
Princeton UP Ideas PodcastJorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's people while offering a lens through which to understand the political, economic, and social challenges confronting them today.In this masterful work of scholarship, Meléndez-Badillo sheds light on the vibrant cultures of the archipelago in the centuries before the arrival of Columbus and captures the full sweep of Puerto Rico's tu...
2024-04-1644 min
New Books in Latin American StudiesJorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's people while offering a lens through which to understand the political, economic, and social challenges confronting them today.In this masterful work of scholarship, Meléndez-Badillo sheds light on the vibrant cultures of the archipelago in the centuries before the arrival of Columbus and captures the full sweep of Puerto Rico's tu...
2024-04-1644 min
New Books in Caribbean StudiesJorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's people while offering a lens through which to understand the political, economic, and social challenges confronting them today.In this masterful work of scholarship, Meléndez-Badillo sheds light on the vibrant cultures of the archipelago in the centuries before the arrival of Columbus and captures the full sweep of Puerto Rico's tu...
2024-04-1644 min
New Books in Iberian StudiesJorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's people while offering a lens through which to understand the political, economic, and social challenges confronting them today.In this masterful work of scholarship, Meléndez-Badillo sheds light on the vibrant cultures of the archipelago in the centuries before the arrival of Columbus and captures the full sweep of Puerto Rico's tu...
2024-04-1644 min
Relish: This Transformative Full Audiobook For Busy Professionals.Puerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez-BadilloPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758421to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Puerto Rico: A National History
Author: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Narrator: Tony Chiroldes
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Release date: April 2, 2024
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's pe...
2024-04-0210h 27Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in History, WorldPuerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez-BadilloPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758421to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Puerto Rico: A National History
Author: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Narrator: Tony Chiroldes
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Release date: April 2, 2024
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's pe...
2024-04-0210h 27
Discover The High-Impact Full Audiobook Experience!Puerto Rico by Jorell Meléndez-BadilloPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/125675to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Puerto Rico
Author: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Narrator: Tony Chiroldes
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
Release date: 04-02-24
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 49 ratings
Genres: Caribbean & West Indies
Publisher's Summary:
This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today.
2024-04-0210h 27
Converging Dialogues#326 - Puerto Rico: A Natural History: A Dialogue with Jorell Meléndez BadilloIn this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Jorell Meléndez Badillo about the history of Puerto Rico. They talk about the origins of the island of Puerto Rico, Taino peoples, reasons for Columbus coming to Puerto Rico, and indigenous peoples fighting back. They talk about enslaved peoples in the mid 16th century, origins of the term “Puertorriqueños,” impact of race and colorism, and hardship in Puerto Rico in the 19th century. They discuss the Lares revolution, coming to New York, Spanish-American war and the United States acquiring Puerto Rico, cultural shifts from Spanish colony to American colony...
2024-04-012h 31
Plan de ContingenciaNota al Calce 171: "Ni dios ni amo" ft Jorell A. Meléndez BadilloEn la historia de Puerto Rico el anarquismo ha sido un tema marginal a pesar de su importancia en la formación del movimiento obrero. Junto al profesor y sociólogo Gary Gutiérrez, nos sentamos con el profesor Jorell Meléndez Badillo, estudioso del anarquismo, para conversar sobre sus orígenes y su desarrollo en Puerto Rico.
#DaleOído Plan de Contingencia es un podcast producido en Puerto Rico por Esteban Gómez y Guarionex Padilla donde discutimos temas de actualidad nacional e internacional. #DaleOído. Si deseas continuar la conversación en las redes sociales: Twitter: @pdcontingencia | Instagram: @plandecon...
2023-10-252h 17New Books in Latin American StudiesJorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, "The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)In The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Duke UP, 2021), Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of letters and navigated the colonial polity that emerged out of the 1898 US occupation. They did so by asserting themselves as citizens, producers of their own historical narratives, and learned minds. Disregarded by most of Puerto Rico's intellectual elite, these workers engaged in dialogue with international peers and imagined themselves as part of a global community. They also entered the world of politics thr...
2022-04-2751 min
New Books in Latino StudiesJorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, "The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)In The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Duke UP, 2021), Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of letters and navigated the colonial polity that emerged out of the 1898 US occupation. They did so by asserting themselves as citizens, producers of their own historical narratives, and learned minds. Disregarded by most of Puerto Rico's intellectual elite, these workers engaged in dialogue with international peers and imagined themselves as part of a global community. They also entered the world of politics thr...
2022-04-2751 minNew Books in Caribbean StudiesJorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, "The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico" (Duke UP, 2021)In The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Duke UP, 2021), Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of letters and navigated the colonial polity that emerged out of the 1898 US occupation. They did so by asserting themselves as citizens, producers of their own historical narratives, and learned minds. Disregarded by most of Puerto Rico's intellectual elite, these workers engaged in dialogue with international peers and imagined themselves as part of a global community. They also entered the world of politics thr...
2022-04-2751 min
El Viaje CosmicoEl Viaje del Anarquismo #8En este episodio de El Viaje Cosmico se toca un tema sumamente interesante, El Anarquismo , como invitados Lour y Luis . Expandan su conocimiento y disfruten de este muy interesante tema. Aqui estan los libros y autores del cual hablamos. Piotr Alekséyevich - El apoyo mutuo: Un factor de evolución
, Jorell A. Meléndez Badillo -
Voces libertarias: Los orígenes del anarquismo en Puerto Rico
, Bianca M. Medina Báez - Juana Colón y la lucha de la mujer obrera , https://www.vice.com/en/article/43dmgm/the-most-feminist-revolution-the-world-has-ever-witnessed , Emma Goldman https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/index.h...
2020-10-181h 54