Cuban Filmmaker
Gloria Rolando and Cuban National Archivist
Dr. Tomas Fernandez Robaina to discuss the premier screening of Rolando's
1912 - Voces Para Un Silencio (Breaking the Silence)
about the Cuban government's massacre of 6,000 AfroCubans and members of the
Independent Party of Color. Presented by Lee C. Robinson (African Awareness Association) and
Roberto Zurbano
is the editor/publisher of "Casa de las Americas," a Havana-based
cultural institution that publishes the works of writers, artists,
musicians, and playwrights as well as scholars of literature, the arts,
and social sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Historic Note: This program will also welcome Special Guest Speaker: Patricia L. Pego Guerra, First Secretary, Cuban Interests Section to Washington, DC - permitted for the first time to travel out of the DC area.
Tickets $10 at Eventbrite or at the door.
2nd Program on Tuesday night, 11/20: at Elegba Folklore Society, 6-9pm. Tickets $10 at Eventbrite or at the door.
Much more information about this story, the film, and the US tour of
this delegation is available at
http://afrocubaweb.com/cubanscholarsvisitus.htm.
Nov. 26: Family and Activists in Defense of Ashley Williams
White
and Black Women are coming together to demonstrate solidarity and
support for a young African American mother being driven into prison by a
system more interested in scapegoating than in knowing the truth being
sought in the death of her youngest child. Trial date: Nov.
Dec. 3: Afro-Columbian Human Rights Campaign (ACHRC)
Pre-recorded
interview with Charo Minas-Rojas, U.S. host of Francia Marques, an
Afro-Colombian community leader from La Toma, a community of artisanal
miners settled in 1636 by Africans, who spoke at the School of the
America’s annual vigil at Fort Benning, Georgia, during the weekend of
Nov. 16-18.
Learn more in English: www.afrocolombianhr.org
Learn more in Spanish: www.renacientes.org
