Racism
Do we Cubans still need permission to enter state establishments? JORGE ENRIQUE RODRÍGUEZ | La Habana | 31 de Mayo de 2017 – 07:34 CEST.
I recently went to buy cigarrettes at the Ruinas del Parque bar-restaurant, located on the… Continue reading
Cuban activists fighting racism weigh their fragile relationship with the government BY NORA GÁMEZ TORRES ngameztorres@elnuevoherald.com
Almost apologizing because he “doesn’t want to make things worse,” Afro-Cuban activist Norberto Mesa Carbonell recalled how Cuban police arrested him for trying to… Continue reading
Commentary: Social justice in Cuba? No racism? Javier Garcia-Bengochea Guest Columnist
Privacy Policy It ain’t what you don’t know that hurts you. It’s what you think you know that just ain’t so … Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige paraphrasing… Continue reading
In Cuba, a battle against racism persists, activists say BY NORA GÁMEZ TORRES ngameztorres@elnuevoherald.com
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS More than 30 Cuban activists, writers, academics and entrepreneurs, mostly of African descent, gathered at Harvard University for an unprecedented meeting to celebrate the… Continue reading
Cuba sí, racism no! By Cate McQuaid GLOBE CORRESPONDENT APRIL 06, 2017
CAMBRIDGE — The Afro-Cuban painter Juan Roberto Diago came of age in the 1990s in the midst of a firestorm. The collapse of the Soviet Union devastated Cuban… Continue reading
Free market Cubans make their case YUSIMÍ RODRÍGUEZ LÓPEZ | La Habana | 3 de Abril de 2017 – 19:01 CEST.
Until 2003 Fernando Palacio oversaw the Intensive System for Medical Emergencies (SIUM), a very prominent position in one of… Continue reading
Never belonging: Random reflections on my last visit to Cuba OPINIONMIGUEL DE LA TORRE | MARCH 28, 2017
Returning to the land which witnessed my birth is always a gut-wrenching experience. Separation from my island has now been five times… Continue reading
“And Then You Hear People Say That Racism Doesn’t Exist In Cuba” / Cubanet
I literally just saw a police officer ask a couple of kids for their identification and I’m pretty sure he did it because they were black.… Continue reading
Cuban rapper dedicates new song with biting lyrics to those fleeing BY NORA GÁMEZ TORRES ngameztorres@elnuevoherald.com
The immigration experience served as the inspiring force behind a new album by Bian Oscar Rodríguez, better known in the Cuban hip-hop scene as… Continue reading
Black and Counter-revolutionary in Cuba? August 23, 2016 By Yusimi Rodriguez
HAVANA TIMES — I regularly read the articles written by my fellow writer, Elio Delgado Legon, who adds a touch of humor to this website for many of its… Continue reading
Between Analogue and Ideologue. Internet Access in Cuba / Regina Coyula
Ideas shared at the Internet Governance Forum events of the Internet Society of Latin America and the Caribbean, which recently took place in Costa Rica.
Regina Coyula, 5 August… Continue reading
As the future closes in, there’s still time to travel to authentic Cuba THE WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHED: August 5, 2016 at 2:16 pm | UPDATED: August 5, 2016 at 2:19 By Moriah Balingit The Washington Post
For many travelers, the… Continue reading
Discovering the African Heartbeat in Cuba Johnica Reed Hawkins
This story originally appeared in the August issue of ESSENCE. Cuba is a land of contradictions. It’s a nation that is largely defined by the descendants of enslaved Africans, yet also… Continue reading
Where Hip Hop Fits in Cuba’s Anti-Racist Curriculum The country’s education leaders confront deep-seated discrimination in the classroom through rap. Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters
I was sitting with the Afrocentric rapstress Magia López Cabrera in her modest Havana walk-up in… Continue reading
In Cuba, as an uncertain future inches closer, it’s still a step back in time By Moriah Balingit July 28 at 4:30 PM
For many travelers, the goal is to physically move — to be flung through airspace and to… Continue reading
EU-Cuba Human Rights Dialogue in Havana 08/06/2016
On 6th June, the EU and Cuba held their second high-level discussion on human rights in Havana. This was the first such meeting to take place on the island.
The EU delegation was… Continue reading
?Afro-Cuban Activists Fight Racism Between Two Fires They’re caught between a government that denies the existence of racism and fellow black Cubans who lack racial consciousness. By Sujatha FernandesTwitterTODAY 8:00 AM
A “home for sale” sign in Santiago de Cuba.… Continue reading
The Persistence of Racism in Cuba May 21, 2016 By Alberto N Jones
HAVANA TIMES — The 1994 rafter crisis, changed the face of the Cuban emigration and the strategy of the United States government to puncture and weaken the… Continue reading
The War of the Blacks / Somos+
Somos+, Jose Manuel Presol, 17 May 2016 — If there is something shameful in our republican history, it is the events of 1912. Nothing much is being said about it, not even in… Continue reading
Racist graffiti and swastikas in Havana DDC | La Habana | 16 Mayo 2016 – 8:49 am.
On Wednesday the graffiti between Línea and 11 was still there, in El Vedado. If it did not spark more controversy, this was… Continue reading
57 Years Later: Towards a New Contract for Cuba (Pt. 2) / 14ymedio, Manuel Cuesta Morua
14ymedio, Manuel Cuesta Morua, Havana, 8 May 2016 — The only certainty in Cuba in political terms is that the government accumulates a lot… Continue reading
Communist Militancy Expresses Its Disenchantment On The Web / 14ymedio
14ymedio, Havana, 19 April 2016 — The 7th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba has confirmed the suspicions of the opposition. Despite the changes in the socio-political context of… Continue reading
Renowned Cuban pro-reform economist fired as chill sets in 4:25 PM Thursday Apr 21, 2016
HAVANA (AP) ” One of Cuba’s most renowned advocates of economic reform has been fired from his University of Havana think tank for sharing information… Continue reading
Did the Revolution End Racial Discrimination in Cuba? April 15, 2016 By Yusimi Rodriguez
HAVANA TIMES — The United Nations designated March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. This year, Cuba’s official media, tasked with… Continue reading
Obama and Cuban myths debunked YESENIA FERNÁNDEZ SELIER | Nueva York | 5 Abr 2016 – 12:30 pm.
Without any shots, threats or military invasions, the US’s 44th president, Barack Hussein Obama, arrived in and departed from Cuba. Cubans all… Continue reading
About the Racist Text That Appeared in the Havana Tribune/ Victor Fowler Posted on March 31, 2016
Victor Fowler Calzada, Havana, 30 March 2016 – Contemporary journalism in Cuba will bear, for a long time, the shame of a commentary… Continue reading
Cuba After Obama Left BY JON LEE ANDERSON
In the first hours after President Barack Obama’s address to the Cuban people last Tuesday, which he delivered on the main stage of Havana’s impeccably restored nineteenth-century Gran Teatro, several Cubans I… Continue reading
LOG IN SETTINGS
WHITE HOUSE LETTER Along With President Obama, the 21st Century Visited Cuba
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK With Obama Visit to Cuba, Old Battle Lines Fade
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK Obama Family Spring Break: Making History and Doing the Tango
Jian Ghomeshi,… Continue reading
Obama pushes Cuba to improve human rights By Frank Jack Daniel in Havana, Matt Spetalnick 1:19 PM Wednesday Mar 23, 2016
Castro accuses US of double standards after Obama criticises human rights record.
United States President Barack Obama yesterday pushed… Continue reading
Cuba Says It Has Solved Racism. Obama Isn’t So Sure. By DAMIEN CAVEMARCH 23, 2016
HAVANA — President Obama spoke of his Kenyan heritage. He talked about how both the United States and Cuba were built on the backs of… Continue reading
What Obama’s visit means for Cuba’s national conversation about race Kate LinthicumContact Reporter
In recent years, Afro-Cuban intellectuals have started gathering in a cramped Havana apartment to discuss a topic long considered off-limits in Cuba: race.
Fidel Castro’s communist revolution… Continue reading
Cuban Americans are divided on immigration policy Cindy Carcamo
To her family, Ada Caso is known as la comunista — the communist. And in a Cuban American family, that’s as bad as it gets. Though the label is mostly tongue-in-cheek,… Continue reading
Discrimination Against the Poor, an Injustice in Present-day Cuba / Juan Juan Almeida Posted on January 13, 2016
Juan Juan Almeida, 11 January 2016 — Racial and gender designations were fundamental in the dynamics of international politics, basically dominated by… Continue reading