Cuban culture goes to Washington
The 1st Cuban Film Festival has been warmly welcome, featuring on its second night the film “Sisters of the Heart” (2021), a one of a kind and little-known story of the Oblates of Providence, a black Catholic order that started to engage in educational endeavors in 1829, in the United States, Cuba and other parts of the Americas.
A work by activist and filmmaker Gloria Rolando, the film captures the work done by the Oblates when they decided to establish schools and orphanages for poor black children in Haiti, Cuba, New Orleans, Baltimore, New York or Costa Rica.