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Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.'s speech on a panel organized by the Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C. as a tribute to Fidel Castro

Photo by Prensa Latina

Presentation by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.

President and CEO

National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)

November 25, 2019

 

We, the NNPA, represent about 225 African American owned newspapers in the United States. This year represents the one hundred and ninety second year of the Black Press of America. So, I bring you all greetings of solidarity.

Cheryl LaBash's speech on a panel organized by the Cuban Embassy in the United States as a tribute to Fidel Castro's life

Photo: Prensa Latina

I am humbled and honored to be on this panel today. I do not have a deep personal story like we have heard in the past two years about working together with Cuba’s historic leader Fidel Castro whose life, work and example we remember here today.  Really I have been the young woman in the back row, who though now no longer young and often no longer in the back row, still tries to absorb lessons from the Cuban revolution, to understand the world and act to change it.

New smear campaign of the United Stated against Cuba

This campaign is promoted in the face of the failed political attempt to subdue Cubans through the hardening of the economic blockade and the measures to deprive us of fuel and in the face of the proved resilience of our people

Author: Granma newspaper/ internet@granma.cu

November 20, 2019

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