Dominican Independence Day is celebrated every Feb. 27 to mark the country’s freedom from the Haitian regime in 1844. A group — “La Trinitaria” was founded by Juan Pablo Duarte ...

As of 2020, about 18,575 people in the city identified as Dominican. This made Reading, which had a population of 94,903 as of 2023, one of the top 25 U.S. cities with the largest Dominican ...