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Amid backlash against Black Lives Matter, Afro-Latinos find setbacks and opportunities Lautaro Grinspan, The Miami Herald © Al Diaz/Miami/TNS Leilani Bruce, who is Afro-Cuban, started the Candela Book Club to help shine a light on issues of race and racism in Cuba, and to elevate Black voices. MIAMI — For South Florida native Yvonne Rodriguez, being Black in West Miami means coming in frequent contact with her white Hispanic neighbors casual racism, be it in the form of "of...

CUBA CONUNDRUM Then-presidential candidate Joe Biden campaigning in Miamis Little Havana last May. When Joe Biden becomes president this week, Florida politics will compel him to engage both sides of the Cuban-American street before he engages Cuba. For the past seven years, Washingtons Cuba agenda has been as much pendulum as policy. In 2014, President Barack Obama reversed 53 years of the United States isolation of Cuba and re-established ties with Havana. "We will end an outdated approach th...