This past Tuesday, as President Obama notoriously took the hand of Raul Castro at a memorial to Nelson Mandela, the Cuban government simultaneously cracked down on political dissidents on the island.

HAVANA — A U.S. agency’s secret infiltration of Cuba’s underground hip-hop scene to spark a youth movement against the government was “reckless” and “stupid,” Sen. Patrick Leahy said Thursday after ...

A recent piece in the New York Times Sunday Review was about hip hop in Havana. It was called “Straight Outta Havana”, taking the name cue from NWA’s notorious classic cd Straight Outta Compton. Cuban ...

In 2001, X Alfonso produced one of those kinds of key moments n Cuban music that reverberate long after the fact. His album Moré, a tribute to iconic Cuban vocalist Beny Moré, made a huge impact on ...

Assata Shakur died in Havana at 78, ending a life that helped shape Black radical politics and left a lasting imprint on Hip-Hop’s political voice. Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 and later known as ...

Nehanda Abiodun, a black nationalist and anti-drug activist who was charged in connection to a deadly 1981 armored-truck robbery, then fled to Cuba and helped grow that country's grass-roots, ...