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Dr. Cornel West And Others Protest Treatment Of Afro-Cubans According to CNN, Sixty intellectuals and artists including Dr. Cornel West, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and actress Ruby Dee have signed a declaration of protest against the treatment of Afro-Cubans in Cuba. "We cannot sit idly by and allow for decent, peaceful and dedicated civil rights activists in Cuba, and the black population as a whole, to be treated with c ...

Cuba Mulls A Different Kind Of Socialism Cuba's state-run economy has been battered by hurricanes and the global economic crisis, and is now facing its greatest test since the fall of the Soviet Union. Raul Castro, Fidel Castro's brother, who took over in Cuba last year, is working to streamline, decentralize and revive the economy, but of course, he's facing challenges of his own. (NPR) ...

Couple Indicted Of Spying For Cuba Walter Kendall Myers,a retired State Department worker, and his wife have been arrested on charges of spying for Cuba for three decades. Some of their spying methods included morse code messages over a short-wave radio, notes taken on water-soluble paper, and emails sent through Internet cafes. The indictment unsealed Friday said they were such valued agents that they once had a private four-hour meeting with President Fidel Castro. ...

What Obama's Cuba move means for blacks During the revolution, Fidel Castro earned black support, because he promised equal opportunities. As the saying goes, in Cuba, race does not exist, people "are only Cuban." Yet objective reality says something different. ...

Obama Opens Door to Cuba President Barack Obama announced Monday he is willing to improve relations with Cuba by allowing travel and the ability to send money to the island. Obama's decision represents the most significant U.S. policy change toward Cuba in decades. Fidel Castro responded to Obama's decision through a local Cuban newspaper, stating that the travel and money sending restrictions are only a fraction of what Cuba needs most. Castro added that real change in relations would only come once Washingto ...

Holder Begins Inspection Attorney General Eric Holder visited the U.S. detention center Monday at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Holder is talking to officials about detention and interrogation practices, case histories of specific detainees and charges that were pending before Obama suspended military commissions, said Justice Department spokesman Matt Miller. The Obama administration hopes to close the detention center within a year. There are about 245 detainees at the site. Binyam Mohammed is the first Guantanamo detainee ...

Obama Stops Prosecutions At Guantanamo President Barack Obama put a stop Wednesday to the Bush administration's military commissions system for prosecuting detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba. The new administration wants to decide how to deal with this situation differently. The date is not clear for the complete shutdown of the prison, but about 245 detainees remain there. Obama described the military commissions as a failure and said he might prosecute detainees in existing courts. ( ...

Paloma Strengthens into Hurricane Tropical Storm Paloma grew into a Category One hurricane on Thursday and was expected to strengthen further in the coming days. Paloma is on a path that threatens the Cayman Islands and Cuba. (Reuters)  ...