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2 days ago · HAVANA (AP) — The 1959 Castro-led revolution installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans. But 65 years later ...
2 hours ago · July 2, 2024. Stuck in an unfamiliar country, she began to second-guess leaving Cuba. In July 2020, Beyoncé released “Black Is King,” the pop star’s reimagination of Disney’s “The Lion ...
9 hours ago · Valdés, 82, is an exalted eminence of Afro-Cuban music — a founding member of Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna and co-founder of the trailblazing fusion spinoff Irakere, which won a Grammy ...
1 day ago · On July 21, Stanford Live presents Cumbia!@Frost, a triple bill that cogently illustrates why the multifarious form is once again in the midst of a popular resurgence. Joining Colombian standard-bearers Vilma Diaz y La Sonora is the Los Angeles electronica-laced band El Feeling, plus Mission District rising star La Doña and DJ Wonway Posibul.
2 hours ago · Cuban singer Daymé Arocena embraces the sounds of Latin pop on her newest album, 'Alkemi,' making her experiences as an Afro Latina the focus of the project.
3 days ago · (1933; “Lord, May You Be Praised!”), which is a tribute to Afro-Cuban life and culture, and El siglo de las luces (1962; Explosion in a Cathedral, 1963), which portrays the violence and chaos wrought on the Caribbean during the French Revolution.
4 days ago · Ortiz’s work was influential in the emergence of the Afro-Cuban movement, a trend in the arts—particularly in music, dance, and literature—that incorporated and celebrated the African component of Cuban culture.
