Rising ocean temperatures and pollution runoff are bleaching and killing corals in oceans across the globe. But corals in some parts of Cuba are not only surviving, they are thriving.
American and Cuban officials are sitting down in Havana this week to try to hammer the details of their rapproachment. But McDonalds and Walmart won't move in anytime soon.
Cuba is home to several dozen American fugitives, including bank robbers, mass murderers and cop-killers. Life may change for them when relations between the US and Cuba grow warmer.
In the ’70s and ’80s, the East African nation of Tanzania was home to one of the continent’s greatest music scenes. But you wouldn’t know from the recorded evidence. Join us for this Hip Deep edition of Afropop Worldwide, as ...<a class="meta-nav" href="http://www.afropop.org/wp/18634/live-from-bongoland-the-history-of-tanzanias-music-economy/"> Read more »</a>
We have recently lost many great musicians and artists, including Cheo Feliciano, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and now Juan Formell, the founder of Los Van Van, the band that changed Cuban popular music forever. Formell was also a bassist, singer, composer, ... Read more »
CC Smith, former editor of The Beat Magazine, has kept busy lately. In addition to helping us sort out all manner of “it’s vs its” -related issues, she recently spent a couple of weeks on the island of Cuba and ...<a class="meta-nav" href="http://www.afropop.org/wp/17368/trova-in-santiago-de-cuba/"> Read more »</a>
The Scene: MiamiFrom the WLRN Newsroom and reporter Nancy Klingener
Sandra Ramos has never wanted to emigrate from Cuba, but in her more than four decades on the island, she has se...
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