CARLOTA Lukumí/Yoruba Woman Fighter for Liberation Massacred in Matanzas, Cuba, in 1844

In order to understand liberation processes in the Caribbean we have to take into account all occurrences which preceded our days and contributed to the formation of our collective consciousness. Cuba, in this sense, possesses an impressive historical legacy of which needs more discussion.

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Arthur Schomburg: Afro-Puerto Rican Historian

Schomburg, a self-described Afro-Borinqueno (Afro-Puerto Rican), immigrated to New York on April 17, 1891and settled down in the Harlem section of Manhattan; here he continued amassing the information needed to untangle the African thread of history in the fabric of the Americas.

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What Happened to the Sunken City of Cuba?

Just over a decade ago, a team of explorers were working on an exploration and survey mission off the western coast of Cuba when their sonar equipment picked up a perplexing series of stone structures lying some 650 metres below the surface. The structures appeared completely analogous against the barren ‘desert’ of the ocean floor and seemed to show symmetrically organized stones reminiscent of an urban development. -

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