Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors took a hit over the past year because of controversy over her financial dealings, including purchases of several new expensive homes in predominantly white neighborhoods. Pretty much everyone who read about the controversy immediately…
Fidel Castro wrested the reins of power over Cuba from military dictator Fulgencio Batista on Jan. 1, 1959. My friend Luis Haza was eight at the time. His father, Col. Bonifacio Haza, was in command of the National Police in…
Little noticed in the recent (or rather, current) fighting between Israel and Palestinian Hamas is that the latter has a cheering section not only in the Fifth Congressional District of Minnesota and New York’s 14th but also in Havana. In…
If you want to witness real courage by performance artists taking on systemic injustice, look not west to Hollywood but 90 miles to our country’s south, or closer yet at your mobile screen. After more than 60 years of soul-crushing…
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick has become the face of a movement that has filled our streets with protests and riots. He is not the voice, mind you, just the face. His handlers keep his image before the public through…
I find the possible death of Kim Jong-un intriguing, but I’m more concerned about confirming the death of his hairdresser. That guy could still be out there leaving people’s hair like parallelopipedons. Trump needs to stop spying on North Korea’s…
I was in the car with my daughter on Sunday listening to SiriusXM Radio when I caught an ad for a new Johnny Carson Channel. I jumped at the dial to find it. “I’ve heard of him,” said my curious…
I remember very little about Cuba — a field of grassy ferns that closed up when I touched one, the boulders below El Morro Castle, and the fairytale-blue sea. Hazy as these images seem, they’re realer than anything Bernie Sanders…
“We have no reason to create millionaires,” declared Fidel Castro to his Politburo. “We fight not to create millionaires.” Castro, for the record, was much more than a millionaire. In 2006, Forbes magazine estimated his net worth at $900 million…
