By NBHRN staff
At a regularly scheduled meeting of the NBHRN held on Sunday April 5th, Mark A. Bimbela, president of the Puerto Rican Bar Association, announced that his organization, which will celebrate its 175th anniversary on September 12th, 2015, is dedicating a special recognition to the Puerto Rican patriot, Oscar Lopez-Rivera. They will be contacting the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to request that Oscar be given permission to travel to the island to receive this prestigious award.