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Havana

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While guiding the Harvard Monday Jazz Band through the vibrant landscape of his native Cuba, Yosvany Terry (at piano) returned to his hometown. His father, Eladio (left), joins him in playing some music.

Harvard jazz leader, amid his Cuban roots

Instructor Yosvany Terry returns home, where his musical destiny was formed

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DateSeptember 6, 2017September 7, 2017

The National Folkloric Company of Cuba performs in the Tata Güines museum courtyard.

A Cuba-Harvard connection, with a beat

Jazz band makes and learns music, absorbs culture on island visit

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DateAugust 29, 2017March 12, 2018

Often approaching his subjects from two to three miles away, usually from some height, Jonathan Hansen (photo 1) snaps, later close-cropping his photos — a technique that lends a painterly effect to the city’s already colorful rusticity (photos 2, 3). “It’s in the close cropping where I often find things that are interesting, or delightful, or unnoticed,” said Hansen, a senior lecturer on social studies at Harvard.

Walking in Cuba

Historian’s photographs expose the sedimentary layers of a country in flux

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DateApril 8, 2015

Cuban-born artist Elio Rodriguez (from left), Du Bois Institute Director Henry Louis Gates Jr., and historian Alejandro de la Fuente were part of a panel discussion on art, race, and Cuba. The panel convened to celebrate the opening exhibit "Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art," which was curated by de la Fuente.

In a land of equality, racism

Cuban artists show how, despite cultural facade, skin color matters

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DateFebruary 8, 2012April 26, 2019

Havana, then and now

Exhibit shows historic postcard images, digital photo matches

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DateFebruary 8, 2010May 2, 2019