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Given the rapidly changing U.S. news cycle and the fact that Puerto Rico still has not recovered from 2017’s Hurricane Maria, we can do our part to help Hurricane Melissa victims in their struggle to rebuild by keeping news and stories about the catastrophe visible.

I raised this issue back in November in “Caribbean Matters: Hurricane Melissa recovery will take a global effort.”

Caribbean American people number around 13 million in the U.S., but aid and assistance shouldn’t be linked only to ancestry. Given the antipathy exhibited by the racist xenophobe currently occupying our Wh

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