Thursday, June 05th, 2014

How many free-market reforms can Cuba make and still call itself Communist?

The world’s last relic of Marxist-style economies relaxed their policies yet again this week to allow the first wholesale agricultural market farmers have seen for generations.  Since 2008, when the reforms of Fidel’s brother Raul began altering the economic legacy of the infamous Cold War Castro regime, over one-half million small businesses have been encouraged to innovate, employ and operate… [Read Full Article]

Wednesday, June 04th, 2014

In Cuba, technology may beat censorship

BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMERThe Miami Herald Published: May 30, 2014Cuba’s first major independent newspaper in more than five decades — a digitaldaily called 14ymedio — was quickly blocked within the island last week, but thebig question is for how long the country’s regime will be able to maintain itsmonopoly on the news media.Yoani Sanchez, the prominent Cuban blogger who launched the new digital… [Read Full Article]

Tuesday, June 03th, 2014

Arn Chorn Pond - Everyone has a Story

Most of Arn Chorn's family was killed during the Cambodian genocide. At age ten he had slaved in a work camp, witnessing wide-scale starvation and murder. When the North Vietnamese invaded Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge forced him to become a soldier until he escaped on foot through the jungle in Thailand.Watch the video here. [Read Full Article]

Monday, June 02th, 2014

Vincent Harding, 82, Civil Rights Author and Associate of Dr. King, Dies

Vincent Harding, a historian, author and activist who wrote one of the most polarizing speeches ever given by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in which Dr. King expressed ardent opposition to the Vietnam War, died on Monday in Philadelphia. He was 82.His death, from an aneurysm, was confirmed by the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, where he… [Read Full Article]

Friday, May 30th, 2014

Cuban Skating

Cuba isn't known for its non-conformists, so skateboarding, with its counter-cultural roots, is not a sport that has been encouraged on the Caribbean island. But a group of young individuals are still ollie-ing and grinding through the streets of Havana.The below video (created for Cuba Skate by Humanity's Gaston Blanchet) focuses on Cuban skater Yojani Pérez Rivera and he and his friends' journey to… [Read Full Article]