January 6 is the day of the international cultural heritage called Día de Los Reyes -Three Kings Day. Poor People’s Embassy commemorates the struggles of the Puerto Rican people of El Barrio – East Harlem, New York, that to this day have made the annual commemoration of this holiday possible.
Poor People’s Embassy also on this Day salutes the Puerto Rican Contingent of the original Poor People’s Campaign and organizer Gilberto Gerena Valentín. Also, Saludos to comrades in PPC who stood in solidarity: Reies Lopez Tijerina, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzáles, Cornelius “Cornbread” Givens, Tillie Walker, Hank Adams, Clyde Warrior, Big Snake, Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, and many others.
