The Nuyorican movement was a cultural and intellectual movement that originated in the late 1960s and 1970s among Puerto Ricans in New York City neighborhoods like Loisaida, East Harlem, and the South Bronx. It aimed to validate the Puerto Rican experience in the U.S. and gave rise to organizations like the Nuyorican Poets Café, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, and El Museo del Barrio. Key figures included Miguel Pinero and Pedro Pietri, who helped establish the Nuyorican Poets Café, and the movement drew influence from the Black Power and Young Lords movements of the time.