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A woman in a leopard print dress closing her eyes and dancing at a bar in Puerto Rico
February 9, 2021

Just Dance

A woman dances to bomba music at a bar in Loiza Aldea, Puerto Rico. The music originated more than 200 years ago with Africans who had been enslaved by Spanish colonizers to work the island's sugar plantations.
Photograph by Amy Toensing, Nat Geo Image Collection

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