Most Americans probably know the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898 in Havana Harbor led to the Spanish-American War and helped liberate Cuba from Spain. But do they know that Cuban silver funded the battle of Yorktown during the American Revolution?

Students, faculty and community members gathered at Smathers Library Wednesday night for a screening of the “Walking the Cuban Tightrope,” which connects Cuba’s national ideals to the realities of life on the island. The documentary was the second ...

With Cuba going through its largest protests against the government in decades, it's important to contextualize this recent movement in the island nation's long history of resistance and revolt. Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with Michael Bustamante ...

The House On G Street is Lisandro Perez' newest book. The title refers to the house that his grandfather built in 1920 in Vedado, Havana Cuba. "I got a sense of belonging and a sense of family in that house. To me, in many ways, it represented Cuba," Perez ...

Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat, the leader of a Cuban exile group, is denouncing praise 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones lent to the socialist country he left. Hannah-Jones recently caught headlines for telling Vox that "Cuba has the least inequality ...

“Cuba looks like it is ready to fall,” President Trump told reporters on Air Force One last Sunday. As the free world basked in the news of the president’s ouster of former Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro, reporters wondered where Trump might ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Cubans are calling for freedom and the resignation of current President Miguel Diaz-Canel. People in Cuba and South Florida alike have organized demonstrations for the country's freedom. The island has been under a communist ...

The Cuban government, which has so far outlasted 13 U.S. presidents, faces its gravest challenge yet. Images from The New York Times and others record nearly seven decades of political turmoil, economic crises and small moments of ordinary life.