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    1. Congressional Black Caucus trip to Cuba was a needed venture

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    Apr 15-Apr 21, 2009
    Published:
    Cleveland, OH
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Call & Post
    Journal Title Details:
    15 : 4A-A.4
    Notes:
    Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, have been taking it on the chin in some quarters for a fact-finding trip to Havana, Cuba, to meet with that nation's president. Since the Kennedy administration in the 1960s in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the tiny island 90 miles off the coast of the U.S. has been embargoed and isolated.

    2. From 'Hands off' to hands on, a Black woman in exile

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    May 15-May 21, 2013
    Published:
    Cleveland, OH
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Call & Post
    Journal Title Details:
    20 : 4A-A.4
    Notes:
    Thanks to the federal Freedom of Information Act, citizens were made aware of a program the FBI - under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover - enacted to "neutralize" Black leadership in America.

    3. The CBC and change on Cuba

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    Apr 15-Apr 21, 2009
    Published:
    Cincinnati, OH
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Call & Post
    Journal Title Details:
    15 : 3A
    Notes:
    Since 1959, when Fidel Castro overturned the corrupt, proAmerican government of Fulgencio Batista and declared Cuba a communist nation, the American policy has been one of not just opposing the Cuban government, but of isolating Cuba and its citizens from all economic and social interaction with the United States. The reality is that allowing trade and travel does not eliminate our ability to address Cuba's human rights problems. In fact, one could argue - as even some conservatives did when we participated in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing - that such interaction gives greater voice to questions of human rights in Cuba. Our policy against Cuba has largely been shaped by the politics of Florida, where anti-Castro Cuban immigrants have long been a powerful economic and political force. But even that is changing; younger Americans of Cuban origin are becoming increasingly more likely to support travel to, and trade with, Cuba.