Above: Havana, February 2021. Medical students go door to door, making sure anyone with COVID symptoms gets needed care. For more than 60 years black Cubans have been a leading force in the socialist revolution, fighting to consolidate social and political gains of working people of all skin colors while uprooting legacy of discrimination against Cubans who are black. Below: Some of the 100,000 young volunteers who in 1961 helped wipe out illiteracy in Cuba.
By Jean Ulman
October 14, 2021