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There’s a new ‘language’ brewing in Florida. Here’s how it works

While Florida has plenty of native slang, it turns out that an entirely new way of speaking has come about in the Sunshine ...
WBUR

How I became the matriarch of my Cuban family in New England

My cousin gave me the news at my aunt’s funeral. Teresita and I were both teary-eyed, just a few feet from Tia Silvia’s coffin, in a room full of Spanish-speaking mourners cooing comfort to each other ...
Jacobin on MSN

Cuba’s Role in Angola Changed the Course of African History

The end of Portuguese colonial rule in Angola fifty years ago was also the beginning of a Cuban military mission that had a ...
New York Post

Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés dead at 79

HAVANA — Pablo Milanés, the Latin Grammy-winning balladeer who helped found Cuba’s “nueva trova” movement and toured the world as a cultural ambassador for Fidel Castro’s revolution, has died in Spain ...
Publishers Weekly

The Initials of the Earth: A Novel of the Cuban Revolution

Cuban writer and filmmaker Diaz (1941–2002) originally published this novel of the revolution in Havana and Madrid in 1987, a few years before his self-imposed exile to Europe in 1991. It traces the ...
Rolling Stone

Pablo Milanés, Cuban Singer and Songwriter, Dead at 79

Pablo Milanés, the legendary Cuban singer-songwriter widely known as Pablito, died in Madrid on Monday. He was 79. The founder of the Cuban nueva trova (the new song movement), Milanés toured the ...