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![Oye Latino!](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: CV 282Format: Cass A & BProducers: MNF 88.5 FMCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Wrangler Jeans upsets many Puerto Ricans when they refer to the island as Indians and Creoles. The Broadway show the Cape Man focused on the life of Salvador Argon, a 16 year old Puerto Rican youth who became the youngest person sentenced death. The show had a musical score that included Ruben Blades and Marc Anthony. The history of the musicians Arsenio Rodriguez, and Javier Solis. The visit of Pope John Paul to Cuba, and the Pope’s denunciation of the US embargo on the nation. Dr. Kenya Jimenez of UC Berkley, discusses the book The Buried Mirror by Carlos Fuentes, and details the life of Juana Ibanez de la Cruz. The music of Cuban musician Ernesto Lecuona.
![Eyes of the Rainbow](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: CD 900Format: DVDProducers: Gloria RolandoProgram: Remastered 2013Collection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Deals with the life of Assata Shakur, the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army leader who escaped from prison and was given political asylum in Cuba, where she lives in exile. Based on a visit with Assata in Havana. She tells us about her history and her life in Cuba. This film is also about Assata's AfroCuban context, including the Yoruba Orisha Oya, goddess of the ancestors, of war, of the cemetery and of the rainbow.
![Prisoner in Paradise](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
In 1977 Black Panther Assata Shakur was sentenced to life for a crime she says she didn't commit. Two years later she masterminded a daring prison escape and now lives in exile in Cuba. Here, 20 years after her conviction, Shakur reflects on politics, family, and the island she calls home.
![Letter to the Pope from Sister Assata Shakur](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The Daily ChallengeDate: 1/22/1997Volume Number: 22-JanFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Assata Shakur
reproduction of original letter
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