!Caramba! A Quick Cuba Show & Tell...and Call for a New US Policy

Alum Mitty Owens, Stiles '86/87, discussed his extensive travels to Cuba. Please let us know if you're considering making the trip and would like tips, or even to form a group to travel to Cuba and we'll connect you with Mitty.

• View Mitty's slides which have been updated with a few "bonus slides" at the end - including notes about other Black Yale alumni connections to Cuba. 

• Check out Mitty's travelogue which is best viewed in a browser.

• Mitty showed a clip from the documentary series "The War on Cuba" and recommends "Black and Cuba", a 2016 film following a Black graduate reading group whose analysis compels them to travel to Cuba, and reflect on their Yale experience.

• During the Zoom, Black alum Ron Howell '70 (pictured below) shared that he interviewed Fidel Castro and Assata Shakur. Read two of Ron's writings about Cuba below.

"Tourism Reviving Racism in Cuba" published May 18, 2001

"On the Run with Assata Shakur" published October 11, 1987