Tag: JR Valrey

Cuba has always defended the need for international relations based on sovereign equality, dialogue and cooperation, rather than hegemonic doctrines or threats of force. The peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean have the right to freely determine their own destiny, without external interference.

The Oakland Police Department has been receiving federal oversight since the conclusion of the Oakland Riders trial in 2003 because of its accountability issues and the fact that it has been run like a mafia that is above the law.

For more than 60 years, the U.S. government has economically targeted Cuba while mainstream corporate media often repeats official narratives without fully examining the human cost of sanctions and blockades on everyday Cuban people. In this conversation, Havana-based journalist Liz Oliva Fernández offers a perspective rarely heard in U.S. media — one rooted not in politics from afar, but in the lived reality of surviving, reporting and resisting from inside Cuba itself.

The film centers around humanizing the lives of boosters, people who steal clothes from corporate stores to resell at a discount on the streets, in contrast to US media's normalization of humanizing corporate and government war criminals and environmental and ecological terrorists. 

The white record execs are so “helpful” to Mike in the movie, we do not get to see that Mike was a shrewd businessman. The movie has no soul or Blackness in it, when at one time MJ was the epitome of Black music and dance.

To be against Cuba is to be against humanity. Time and time again Cuba has offered support wherever it is needed most. They have even offered medical aid to the United States because, for them, people and lives come before politics and ideologies.

The question we should be asking ourselves is not whether socialism has failed, but rather: What country in the world, regardless of its political system, would survive a siege of this magnitude for seven decades?

The Black Panther Party, founded to end the oppression of Black people, recognized that political solidarity was fundamental but not enough; to fight for freedom, people need to eat, learn and be healthy. In response, free breakfast was offered to children by chapters of the party throughout the country, along with community schools, free health clinics and many other efforts under the banner “Survival Pending Revolution.” Here, Dr. Buck explains the programs as he leads a tour of the Black Panther Museum.

Brenda Lopez is cofounder of Cuba Si, Bloqueo No! to end the 65-year-old US blockade that was supposed to strangle Cuba to death. Thanks to grassroots support around the world, Cuba still stands strong.

Maria cooks for her family in remnants of what was her family's home prior to October's Hurricane Melissa in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 

After relocating recently to Calabash in downtown Oakland – and being open only for brunch – Samara Southern Creations is easily the most poppin’ place to be on any given Sunday afternoon.

Hurricane Melissa was bigger than Katrina. Compounded by a US-sponsored blockade, it's impossible for Cuba to even get the meager aid that is currently being offered by the international community to Jamaica.

Maria Mirabel is in Old Havana helping the Mumia Freedom organizers teach the youth in the streets about Black Panther political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal. 

We serve Muslims through prayer, study and counseling. We also serve the broader community through food distribution, educational programs and recovery support.

Hurricane Melissa has had a devastating impact on eastern Cuba. Cuba has found creative ways to survive and move forward despite enormous obstacles and just got overwhelming support from the UN to end the US blockade.

You could look in her eyes and feel her dedication to the liberation of Black people in the US, her passion for righteousness, and her justified rage at oppression. You could sense a revolutionary razor sharp mind and a heart bigger than Africa. 

For decades, Cuba has treated healthcare as a basic human right. International donations are a key support for this system. They remind us that health is a global good, something that should never be held hostage to geopolitics or sanctions.

What the Cuban people endure is not a limited or selective restriction – it’s a full-scale siege. A form of collective punishment aimed at breaking a nation’s spirit.

The way Eric Hunter described his trip to Houston made me want to book my first, and mouth-watering at that, flight to Houston immediately!

Rapper author Vidal Prevost aims to share art through his fictional story about a growing boy to man as witness to an esoteric lifestyle.