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  • This Cuba Deal Reversal Is Bad, But I'm More Creeped Out By How Obsessed Donald Trump Is With President Obama

    We have a few years worth of proof that Barack Obama is leasing prime real estate in Donald Trump’s Cheeto-adjacent brain. Beginning, of course, with the birther fiasco — the transparently racist pseudo controversy that made Trump a viable political figure and reminded us that Capital Letter Whiteness, if believing your Black ass to be…

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    Damon Young

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  • Trump Expected to Make Changes to US Cuba Policy in Miami This Week

    For all those who didn’t get to go to Cuba during the two years after President Barack Obama lifted restrictions on travel to the country, you might be SOL.President Donald Trump is expected to make substantial changes to the U.S. policy toward Cuba in Miami on Friday. On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to terminate…

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    Angela Helm

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  • President Obama Ends ‘Wet-Foot, Dry-Foot’ Policy for Cuban Migrants Seeking Residency

    President Barack Obama announced Thursday that he has ended the “wet-foot, dry-foot” policy that allowed Cubans reaching U.S. soil to stay and become automatically eligible for American residency, while those found at sea were sent back home to Cuba. “Effective immediately, Cuban nationals who attempt to enter the United States illegally and do not qualify…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Fidel Castro’s Last Wish: No Monuments or Memorials in My Name

    Cuban President Raúl Castro said Saturday that Cuba will not name any streets or erect an public monuments in honor of his brother Fidel, in keeping with the former leader’s expressed desires, reports The Guardian. During the last stop on Fidel’s funeral procession, which began in Havana and ended in the eastern city of Santiago’s…

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    The Root Staff

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  • The Love Affair Between Fidel Castro and You Is a Lie

    Don’t romanticize the death of Fidel Castro, or the tales of his revolution, or the political asylum granted to Assata Shakur. Castro was a tyrannical dictator who kept the people of Cuba under his heel or at the end of his gun. From the time he took office in 1959 until his death Nov. 25,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Fidel Castro, Leader of the Cuban Revolution, Has Died at 90

    Fidel Castro, the leader and face of Cuba’s revolution, died Friday at age 90. The iconic leader who for years was not seen without a Cohiba cigar was as beloved as he was despised. One of his greatest legacies was his fierce resistance of 50 years of U.S. attempts to topple him. Raúl Castro, Fidel’s…

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    The Root Staff

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  • President Obama Lifts All Limits on Cuban Cigars and Rum

    Time to throw up your Cohibas! The Obama administration announced Friday new measures to further ease trade, travel and financial restrictions on Cuba as President Barack Obama seeks to make open relations with the island nation “irreversible” before he leaves office, Reuters reports. “Today, I approved a Presidential Policy Directive that takes another major step forward…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Raíces Latinas: Conversations With My Grandmother

    “No te olvides que tienes raíces Latinas.” (“Do not forget you have Latin roots.”) My grandmother, or “Abuelita” (as I refer to her), often said this to me. This time, she was seated in her reclining chair. Through her silver-rimmed bifocals, I saw her penetrating eyes. “Of course not, Abuelita,” I said with a cooing…

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    Felice León

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  • Poverty Doesn't Stop Cuba From Keeping Its Black Citizens Healthy, so What’s America’s Excuse?

    Whenever I hear Cubans talk about their nation’s advancements in health care, and when I think about where the U.S. is on all this, what I hear is a tale of two scarcities. The tales, however, end differently for the people of color who are the main characters. Although Cuba has, for the past five decades,…

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    Tonyaa J Weathersbee

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  • US Transportation Secretary Approves 6 Domestic Airlines to Begin Scheduled Flights to Cuba

    U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced Friday that the Department of Transportation has approved six domestic airlines to begin scheduled flights between the United States and Cuba as early as this fall, a press release from the White House notes. The approved carriers are American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Silver Airways, Southwest Airlines and Sun…

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    Breanna Edwards

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