The Weekend Read / June 20, 2026 We want to see Cuba as the pleasure colony of the past. Today, it’s more of a country on the brink of collapse. Ad Policy Avenida 23 or La Rampa in Havana, Cuba, circa 1959. (Archive Photos / Getty Images) To write about
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It was a mild June day in 2020 when the tensions simmering between Brooklyn’s Black political establishment and a group of political insurgents broke into the open. Jabari Brisport and Phara Souffrant Forrest, candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America for seats in the New York State Senate and
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