The third annual Malcolm X El-Hajj Malik El Shabazz birthday event on May 18 at Free AME Ministries featured young poets Alani Kent and Love Quezada, speakers Dr. Melissa Knight and Dr. Michael [...] Continue Reading
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Cuban Doctors the Pride of the Nation
For many decades, Cuba has been sending thousands of medical professionals overseas to work in countries that needed doctors for a variety of reasons—post-colonial countries such as Algeria, Zimbabwe, [...] Continue Reading
U.S. Threats Against Cuban International Medical Program
For many years, Cuba has been providing both disaster-related and not-quite-routine medical care to many countries in the world, almost all in the Global South. This is often focused on post-colonial [...] Continue Reading
Marco Rubio’s Powerful Secret Backers
Marco Rubio, as everyone knows, is now the U.S. Secretary of State. Among his first acts was attempting to deport a legal permanent resident of the United States who had committed no crime. The [...] Continue Reading
Keeping It Real with the Revolutionary MLK
Each year on the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., people who hated him and everything that he worked for, spoke and wrote for, went to jail for and ultimately died for, take his name [...] Continue Reading
Cuba Briefly Off the “Terrorism” List
(Editor’s note: Just a few hours into the new Trump administration, the White House announced that Cuba is back on the list of “terrorist countries.”) The U.S. State Department maintains a list of [...] Continue Reading
Fascists Steal Children
As we prepare for the re-inauguration of a fascist monster, it might be good to learn more about something we already know: Fascists steal children. The first Trump regime separated children from [...] Continue Reading
Devastating Hurricane Rafael Hits Cuba
On Nov. 6 (Wednesday), Hurricane Rafael hit central Cuba, and I was there. This is a contemporary account written from Marianao, Havana, four days later, while our electricity was still out. It’s [...] Continue Reading
Why Isn’t an Armed Attack on the Cuban Embassy Called Terrorim?
On April 30, 2020, Alexander Alazo, a Texas resident and Trump supporter—he wrote Trump 2020 on a Cuban flag—took an AK-47 and fired 32 shots at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. He didn’t hit [...] Continue Reading
Mexico: Court Reform
Mexico has approved and initiated a process of court reform intended to fight corruption through participatory democracy. In Mexico, all judges will be democratically elected. It is the first country [...] Continue Reading
México: Profunda Reforma Judicial
En México todos los jueces serán electos de manera directa a través de votación popular. Será el primer país del mundo en que se decide elegir a todos los jueces de esta manera, aunque hay otros [...] Continue Reading
Federation of Cuban Women Celebrates 64 Years
The Federation of Cuban Women (Federación de Mujeres Cubanas, or FMC) was founded on Aug. 23, 1960, only eight months after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The leader of the movement for women’s [...] Continue Reading