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July 2018

Faith

Cuba’s faithful seek more rights in an era of slow reform

HAVANA — As she jogged along the oceanside promenade known as the Malecón, a woman stopped to hug...

Jul 31, 2018
Rights

Cuba’s ‘rainbow revolution’ changes attitudes toward LGBT community

HAVANA – On a hot and humid day in downtown Havana, the streets are filled with rainbows. One...

Jul 31, 2018
Abel Hernandez Eskenazi, front right, dances with other members of the youth organization at their weekly dance group May 14. Eskenazi, 17, has been leading religious services since his Bar Mitzvah four years ago. (Photo by Riley Robinson/The GroundTruth Project)
Faith

In Havana, young Jews create community

HAVANA — A clear voice rings out into the synagogue. It pierces through the blasts of the seven...

Jul 31, 2018
The image of Saint Mercedes, mounted a flight of stairs above the altar at Our Lady of Mercy church, is the reason many Santería practitioners visit. When they look at the image, they see Obatalá, the parent of all orishas. Yojander Pérez López, a volunteer at the church, said it can be frustrating when people enter and call the statue by the orisha’s name. “She is not Obatalá, she is the mother of Christ,” he said. (Photo by Paxtyn Merten/The GroundTruth Project)
Faith

In Cuba, Santería flourishes two decades after ban was lifted

HAVANA — A young woman in a blue shirt is thigh-deep in the Straits of Florida, carrying a...

Jul 31, 2018
Isqura Arudin, 33, faced religious discrimination at her job as a teacher. She said she was told, ‘you are Muslim and with that thing on your head you can’t work in Cuba,’ for wearing a hijab.
Faith

Cuba’s emerging Muslim community adds to religious diversity

HAVANA, Cuba – In a small living room in central Havana, a group of Cubans crammed together with...

Jul 31, 2018
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Navigator

Writing tips from Roy Peter Clark

This column originally appeared in Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. You can subscribe to Navigator here.  Roy Peter Clark...

Jul 24, 2018
Rights

The fight for better pay in D.C.

WASHINGTON –– Venorica Tucker has worked in the service industry since she was around 12 years old, when...

Jul 13, 2018
Children peer through the fence during distribution hours in Zaatari refugee camp on January 18, 2016. (Christopher Lee/GroundTruth)
Navigator

How ‘moral injury’ takes a toll on journalists

This column originally appeared in Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. You can subscribe to Navigator here.  For the last...

Jul 09, 2018
Clockwise from top left: Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiassen, Wendi Winters, Rebecca Smith and John McNamara. (Images courtesy of the Capital Gazette)
Democracy

Journalists vow to ‘press on’ after Capital Gazette remembrance

BOSTON — In newsrooms across America and in many corners of the world, a moment of silence marked...

Jul 06, 2018
Photographer Annabelle Marcovici takes us inside the theater that popped up next door to France’s first temporary shelter for asylum seekers. (Photo by Annabelle Marcovici/GroundTruth)
A New Light

Inside the pop-up theater welcoming refugees in Paris

Public perception of refugees tends to fall into one of two camps: downtrodden aid recipients or social parasites,...

Jul 02, 2018

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