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| − | '''Acción Boricua''' | + | '''Acción Boricua''' was the Puerto Rican cultural group at Columbia and was a recognized student group under the [[Activities Board at Columbia]]. It was founded to foster awareness, promotion, and education of Puerto Rican culture, history, and current situations while simultaneously providing a support group for Latino/a issues at Columbia University in general and to collaborate with other non-Latino/a groups inside and outside the Columbia gates. The group took its name from the native [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%C3%ADno Taino] word for the island of Puerto Rico, ''Boriken''. |
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| + | The group became inactive and was derecognized by ABC sometime in the middle of the first decade of the 2000s. | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:11, 28 April 2015
Acción Boricua was the Puerto Rican cultural group at Columbia and was a recognized student group under the Activities Board at Columbia. It was founded to foster awareness, promotion, and education of Puerto Rican culture, history, and current situations while simultaneously providing a support group for Latino/a issues at Columbia University in general and to collaborate with other non-Latino/a groups inside and outside the Columbia gates. The group took its name from the native Taino word for the island of Puerto Rico, Boriken.
The group became inactive and was derecognized by ABC sometime in the middle of the first decade of the 2000s.
