Cuba

Segment 1: Meet a dean at Haskell Indian Nations University.What does a dean do? We talk with Julia Good Fox about her work at Haskell — and what she…

Segment 1: A new group wants to make theater accessible to everyone.What if you could see a play for free in a non-traditional venue? Well, now you can.…

When Michael McClintock and Dálida Pupo Barrios met, it was not love at first sight.Pupo Barrios was doing her job, working for the Cuban minister of…

With the opening of relations to Cuba, and Kansas City's recent focus on Cuban photography and art, we look at Cuban influence on Kansas City culture over…

For Cuban exile Carlos Eire, coming to the U.S. as a boy was a gift but it took him a few years to realize the freedoms it afforded him. Then, a new book…

In a new unique three-venue exhibition, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art brings photography of the late, Cuban-born Jesse A. Fernández to Kansas City. The…

UMKC alumna Jeanne Drewes spent years traveling to Cuba, partnering with Ediciones Vigía, an independent publishing company and collective of book artists…

In late 1950s, Fidel Castro and his rebellion overthrew an authoritarian, American-backed government, and the Castro government claimed to have…

The path to normalized relations between the United States and Cuba made a stop in farm country Friday.U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and his…

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon returned from a trade mission to Cuba Wednesday with high hopes the state’s farmers will find an export market there.“This is a…

Ernest Hemingway honed his writing style as a cub reporter in Kansas City, however, his later years were spent in Cuba. We look at a new movie about that…

Byron Motley was born in Kansas City, Mo. but the first time he stepped off the plane in Cuba he knew he was home. He talks with Steve Kraske about…