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My Own Educational Exchange Trip: Cuba or the Danube-a?

Randee Mia Berman | Posted 04.18.2013 | Travel
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Randee Mia Berman

When I heard rumors about Jay-Z and Beyonce heading to Cuba, I was feeling pretty confident about my trendy choice to go that way. But then I bagged Cuba, and booked a flight to Vienna, Austria, home of the Lipizzaner stallions and Wienerschnitzel.

LOOK: 27 Afro-Latinos Who've Shaped American Culture

Posted 10.14.2012 | Latino Voices

Hispanic Heritage Month is about celebrating diversity -- acknowledging one of the many different identities that flow within the melting pot that...

Has the Kennedy Center Ignored Latinos?

Kate Kelly | Posted 11.26.2012 | Arts
Kate Kelly

Only two artists of Hispanic descent have been honored in the last 35 years -- Spanish tenor and conductor Placido Domingo (2000) and actress, singer, and dancer Chita Rivera (2002).

After Half a Century, Blacklisted Voices OK'd to Return to Cuban Airwaves

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.16.2012 | World
Yoani Sanchez

After Celia Cruz's exile on July 15, 1960, the most famous Cuban singer was erased from television and radio programming. It was forbidden to broadcast her music, and generations grew up without that cry of "¡azucarrr!" echoing in our ears.

Cuba Removes Artists Such as Celia Cruz and Gloria Estefan From the Blacklist

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.10.2012 | World
Yoani Sanchez

In addition to the already deceased Celia Cruz, many other artists have been banned for years and years. Among them are the bolero singer Olga Guillot, the saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, and pianist Bebo Valdes.

Gimme Cable!

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.30.2011 | World
Yoani Sanchez

Promised since 2008, the fiber optic cable between Venezuela and Cuba only made it to our coast this last February, and then lapsed into a silence quite suspicious for an effort that already cost more than seventy million dollars.

Angelique Kidjo and "The Sound of the Drum"

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Holly Cara Price

Beninoise singer Angelique Kidjo has had a spectacular year. In April she released her newest album, OYO, where she revisited the music that inspired ...