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Professor at the university of pennsylvania grad school of education. thank you for being with us. you were actually born in havana. what's been going on there? >> absolutely. right now in havana, there were protest there is this weekend. what's interesting about these protests that are happening now that are different from last summer is that these are not just marginalized neighborhoods. these are neighborhoods where you had people who in this neighborhood at some point were supportive of the regime. so now you have cubans who are crossed aligning with the protests and aligning with change i...

Working with them, and a lot of us have been impacted who research and work can the cuban community. >> i have been so enjoying your social media posts during hispanic heritage month. you highlight the extraordinary work of afro cubans, so many they are forgotten. >> absolutely. thank you, josé, for all of your work. turning now to breaking news, country singing legend, loretta lynn, has died at 90. family says she passed away peacefully in her sleep. >> loretta lynn sang about what she knew. >> could you stop at the market -- >> it was not always pretty, but it was raw and it was real. ♪...

Being harassed, and this black woman being beat up is not only facing political pressure, but my brothers and sisters on the island and in exile, we have to understand there's a racial dynamic in cuba and we can see that in this image. >> is this just a moment or a movement? we asked that july 11th of last year. >> this is a movement, absolutely. we can see the evidence of it coming from the communities of cubans who have been exiled and are migrants in different parts of the world, in europe, and latin america, and cubans in canada pushing policies to bring to light they should not be

President Joe Biden is rolling back some of his predecessor’s sanctions on communist Cuba. The changes are intended partly to help deter a record wave of Cuban immigration to the U.S.

Cuban government tried to bar these videos from being known. there were people taking to the streets asking for change. who are these people that are now facing 15, 18, 30 years in prison? >> you know, jose, what's so interesting to me is a lot of what's happening in cuba, there is an elephant in the room. although cuba is a political apartheid, there is definitely racial discrimination happening in cuba. when cuba gets a cold, afro cubans get the flu and they die. there's one who was killed by the police. the two witnesses who saw him be killed by the police are now being charged with 20 year...