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Cuban Americans make plea to Biden administration for help on immigration limbo

Immigration

A popular program for reuniting Cuban families in the US has been on pause since 2017. Now, many families are asking the Biden administration to restart it.

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A Miami theater group has a change of heart over blackface

Arts, Culture & Media

Artist’s Choice: Susanna Moore

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Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban

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Los Carpinteros

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Raperos Delight

Arts, Culture & Media

In Cuba, the communist regime has set up the Cuban Rap Agency — which is exactly what it sounds like. The state chooses which hip hop musicians become stars and pays their salaries. Shana Bromberg met up with one certified Cuban rap producer at his studio outside Havana, where he discussed the strangely familiar plight […]

Tania Leon

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The elements of music – melody, rhythm, harmony and so on – are so related they’re almost inseparable. But Cuban-born composer Tania Leon is a rhythm-minded sort. She explains to Sara Fishko that she gets rhythm; and not just one rhythm, many rhythms.

Cuban Organ

Arts, Culture & Media

Music journalist Gianluca Tramontana took a bumpy, 8-hour bus ride from Havana to the remote eastern province of Granma —- the heart of Cuba’s sugarcane country — to find an extraordinary relic: a hand-cranked mechanical organ that is still the life of the party.

Key West Reconnects With Its Cuban Roots

Arts, Culture & Media

The Scene: MiamiFrom the WLRN Newsroom and reporter Nancy Klingener
Sandra Ramos has never wanted to emigrate from Cuba, but in her more than four decades on the island, she has se…

What Will Openness Mean for Cuban Artists?

Arts, Culture & Media

As US-Cuban relations thaw, we’re going to get to know Cuban culture much better. And Cuba will get to know us, like it or not.

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