CBH Talk | How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance

Global superstar Bad Bunny—born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio—has become far more than a chart-topping artist. For millions, he is a voice of pride, defiance, and cultural power, shaped by a Puerto Rico marked by blackouts, hurricanes, political corruption, and the enduring realities of U.S. colonial rule. In this event, scholars Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau who co-created of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus,” use the musician’s meteoric rise as a lens through which to explore Puerto Rico’s past and present, revealing how music becomes an expression of both joy and protest.

Join Díaz and Rivera-Rideau in conversation with Julyssa Lopez, Deputy Music Editor at Rolling Stone, for an illuminating discussion about Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican history, and the power of art to speak back to empire.