A staple of hip-hop culture, the hoodie represented defiance, the down low, discretion, and dignity. Then, in 1973, the beat dropped in the Bronx, and the hoodie became the uniform of MCs, stickup kids, graffiti artists, and b-boys. It soon became popular with athletes and laborers in the Northeast because the added fabric served as a form of protection against the elements and later with high-school athletes, who would wear their schools’ logos and crests on their chests. It was born in the 1930s at Champion when the clothing company that made sweatshirts attached a hood. It has served as a vehicle for both this country’s dreams (athleticism, higher education, luxury) and denials (counterculture, anti-Establishment, racial injustice). The history of the hoodie aligns with America’s divisions of class, race, and identity. Lindsay Peoples-Wagner and Morgan Jerkins This special issue attempts to tell the story of the first decade of Black Lives Matter, the movement - as well as the country it moved. It is, at the same time, a specific collection of organizations and people whose decisions have attracted both applause and criticism whose actions have been a source of intrigue whose personal relationships have both strengthened and splintered under the stress and exposure. Ten years later, “Black Lives Matter” has grown from a hashtag to a protester’s cry to a cultural force that has reshaped American politics, society, and daily life. On February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, because as a Black boy walking in a gated community, he was deemed “suspicious.” Zimmerman’s acquittal appalled a nation often willfully blind to the vulnerability of living while Black. Courtesy of Deborah Roberts, Stephen Friedman Gallery London and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles. He became the face of Communist Cuba over the past decade, after working as a guerrilla commander and later as a senior figure in the socialist government.Deborah Roberts, One of Many (2022), mixed-media collage on paper, 22-by-15 inches.Īrt: Deborah Roberts for New York Magazine. Raul Castro succeeded his brother Fidel Castro as the head of the Communist party in 2011. The economy has stagnated for years and contracted by 11% last year. Reform-minded Cuban economists have long called for the role of small businesses to be expanded to help jump-start the economy and to create jobs. Earlier this year, the Cuban government implemented a plan to unify Cuba's dual currency and allowed private businesses to operate in most sectors of the country, in the biggest reform to Cuba's state-controlled economy for years.
The last year saw food shortages and discontent from the public over growing inequality.
He denounced "inertia, conformism" and lack of initiative in state-owned companies.Ĭastro's resignation comes at a time when Cuba is reeling from an economic crisis, deepened by the coronavirus pandemic and restrictions imposed by the Trump-era US administration. In his resignation speech, Raul Castro said that it was important to speed up reforms. Following Raul Castro's retirement on Friday, Cuba will no longer have a Castro formally involved in the country's affairs, after more than six decades.
Fidel Castro then dominated Cuban politics until 2006, when his failing health forced him to start transferring power to his younger brother Raul. The Castro era started with communist guerrilla leader Fidel ousting US-backed strongman Fulgencio Batista in 1959. He said that he was handing over to a new leadership who were party loyalists and "full of passion and anti-imperialist spirit." Cuban President Diaz-Canel (center right) is expected to succeed Castro Image: Ariel Ley Royero/ACN/AP Photo/picture allianceĬastro didn't reveal his successor, but has previously indicated favoring Miguel Diaz-Canel, who took over as the president of the country in 2018. "As long as I live I will be ready with my foot in the stirrup to defend the homeland, the revolution and socialism with more force than ever," said Castro, who took over the helm of the party in 2011. The 89-year-old leader said that he wasn't forced to step down from his post as the party's first secretary. Instead, he was retiring after having "fulfilled his mission" and was also "confident in the future of the fatherland."Ĭastro made the announcement at the eighth congress of the ruling party, part of which was aired on state television.
Raul Castro, the figurehead of Cuba's Communist party over the past decade, announced his resignation on Friday.
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