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Devyn Spence Benson, Troy Nash & More Talk POTUS' Historic Visit To Cuba

Ricardo E. Gonzalez Zayas was one of over 14,000 Cuban children who were part of "Operation Pedro Pan" -- a secret, mass exodus to the U.S. via air between 1960-1962 from the newly created communist nation located just 90 miles from our Florida coast.

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...

Toggle Sidebar New Book—”Caribbean Migrations: The Legacies of Colonialism” Caribbean Migrations: The Legacies of Colonialism (Bucknell University Press, 2020) by Anke Birkenmaier is a now available. Leah Rosenberg (University of Florida) writes, “Profoundly interdisciplinary and nearly Pan-Caribbean in scope,  Caribbean Migrations transforms our understanding of how migration has shaped the Caribbean and how Caribbean migration has shaped the United States. The analysis of Caribbean ...