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    1. Columbia Professor Leads African American Delegation To Cuba

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    1997-06-25
    Published:
    Washington, DC
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Washington Informer
    Journal Title Details:
    37 : 3
    Notes:
    "Cuba has represented metaphorically the ability of an oppressed people to challenge imperialism and colonialism," Marable explained. "In the political imagination of Black America, Cuba represents the radical possibility of fundamental social change. One of the key questions now is -- what does Cuba represent for Black America in this period of political transition?"

    2. Haiti: One Year After Aristide Coup

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Winston,Bonnie V. (Author) and Blayton,Oscar H. (Author)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    Mar 10-Mar 16, 2005
    Published:
    Washington, DC
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Washington Informer
    Journal Title Details:
    20 : 1-1,31
    Notes:
    "The U.S. government would prefer to tell Haiti what to do and when and how to do it," said Eugenia Charles, the Haitian-born director of Fondasyon Mapou, a Washingtonbased group that seeks to improve the quality of life for Haitians. The group sponsors weekly demonstrations in front of the Haitian Embassy demanding that political prisoners be freed and democracy be restored in Haiti. Thomas Griffin, a Philadelphia attorney and human rights advocate who traveled to Haiti last year, presented details of his findings to members of the Congressional Black Caucus on March 2. His report, released by the Center for the Study of Human Rights at the University of Miami School of Law, found that "Haiti's security and justice institutions fuel the cycle of violence. Summary executions are a police tactic, and even wellmeaning officers treat poor neighborhoods seeking a democratic voice as enemy territory where they must kill or be killed." [Barbara Lee]'s Haiti TRUTH (The Responsibility to Uncover the Tuth about Haiti) Act would form a TRUTH commission to investigate United States involvement in [JeanBertrand Aristide]'s removal.

    3. Venezuelan Musical Group a Link Between Black Washington and Latin America

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Head,Tony D. (Author)
    Format:
    Newspaper Article
    Publication Date:
    Feb 22-Feb 28, 2007
    Published:
    Washington, DC
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Washington Informer
    Journal Title Details:
    16 : 27
    Notes:
    For [Heidi Rondon], the opportunity to express her African roots through music and dance was a calling. "In our veins we carry the African feeling," she explained. "We are direct descendants of slaves that cultivated cocoa and coffee in the central coast of Barlovento many years ago." "These Africans were Latin America's first liberators," says historian and activist Jorge Guerrero Valez accompanying the group. A dignified Venezuelan enormously conscious of his African heritage and history, Jorge spoke eloquently about the solidarity Afro-Venezuelans, as they call themselves, feel with their African American brothers and sisters in the United States and the need to enhance the relationship.