Vivian Nieto, owner of Chulo’s Cafe in Metairie, said the Cuban tradition parallels Louisiana’s French Acadian cochon de lait ...

Being a multicultural first generation American growing up, we always had a hodgepodge of food from different cultures, as ...

The 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro installed an atheist, Communist government that sought to replace the Catholic Church as the guiding force in the lives of Cubans. But religion seems to be ...

Afro-Cuban faithful held a spiritual celebration on Saturday as they prayed for the health of Pope Francis. (AP video shot by: Milexsy Durán and Ariel Fernández) Her murder went unsolved for decades.

Part of the Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative. "From a plantation in Havana Province in the 1880s to a religious center in Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, this book ...

Myth has it that a Cuban who doesn’t dance is a rare creature. You could live a lifetime without seeing one, like the endangered Florida panther. “We come from a dancing island,” explains Fernando ...

Textual Cultures, Vol. 17, No. 2, Special Issue: Material Texts: Religion, Mobility, and Responsibility (Fall 2024), pp. 194-218 (25 pages) This article explores two forms of under-examined Afro-Cuban ...

While some folks drink coffee for the caffeine, others gravitate toward it for pleasure. Cuban coffee is different from the traditional cup you might order at your corner coffee spot — it's a whole ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) -A Cuban family is celebrating the grand opening of their new restaurant, Cuban Corner, in downtown Columbia — a milestone in their journey toward the American dream. The Galguera ...

Ruthie Meadows, ethnomusicologist, writer and associate professor of ethnomusicology within the College of Liberal Arts, has been named as one of the two 2025-2026 Roberto C. Goizueta Distinguished ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - After a few minutes tossing a string of flat beads and chanting, Rogelio Castellano decides his tourist client is emotionally scarred by an old conflict. Only a $500 ritual goat ...