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An African palenque: Cuba and Global Black Solidarity

Originally published: Hood Communist on April 13, 2023 by Kimberly Monroe (more by Hood Communist) | (Posted Apr 18, 2023)

When Black nationalist and poet Amiri Baraka returned from Cuba in 1959, his life was completely transformed. While there he met Afro Cubans, Black Americans such as Robert Williams and Cuban President Fidel Castro.