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Friday, December 18, 2015

The Afro-Cuban Experience


Professor August Nimtz and Tomás Fernández Robaina were invited to speak at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change this past November. Their lecture addressed the prevalent racial affairs experienced in Cuba over the last 55 years. Titled “The Complexity of the Struggle of African Descendants in Cuba Today,” Nimtz and Robaina took their audience back in time to the Cuban Revolution to consider how Black experiences were then, and compared them to the present.  Read more.