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• May 20th: Cuba’s Independence

  Today is the anniversary of Cuba's independence from Spain. Unfortunately, it is also another year Cubans on the island and all over the world are forced to celebrate this independence while their country remains under the tyrannical yoke of the Castro dictatorship.

  Nevertheless, Cuba was once free on a day like [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 20, 2013, 9:00am in Cuba

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• Chinese police detain gay pride march organizer

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  BEIJING -- Police in central China have detained the 18-year-old organizer of a gay pride march in a sign of the government's nervousness over a growing civil society movement and demands for stronger individual rights.

  The man, identified only by his surname Xiang, was detained following the Friday [...]

  From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at May 20, 2013, 8:54am in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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• The road to immobility for older Miamians

  Written by Peter Smith

  Two summers ago, I attended a presentation on mobility at the Department of Transportation’s new headquarters in Navy Yard. My then-boss, Mariia Zimmerman, was speaking on our nation’s preparedness to deal with an aging population in an auto-centric culture, and she gave a startling statistic: eighty-five percent [...]

  From Transit Miami at May 20, 2013, 8:45am in News, Life

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• Happy National Bike Month

  May is National Bike Month. Biking is seeing a nationwide resurgence due to aggressive policies aimed to promote cycling, and as cities and towns in South Florida join the fold by increasing bike infrastructure, now is a particularly good time to bike in the Miami area. If you have a [...]

  From Transit Miami at May 20, 2013, 8:35am in News, Life

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• Gallery | Aqua Girl's Beach House Pool Party and Tea Dance in South Beach (with video)

  Hundreds of women (and a few men) on Sunday packed the pool area at the National Hotel in South Beach for the annual Aqua Girl festival.

  DJs Pride, Tracy Young and Tatianna kept the crowd on its feet for Sunday's Beach House Pool Party and Tea [...]

  From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at May 20, 2013, 8:28am in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs

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• After Tea Party / IRS Debacle, Republicans Call for Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Return Campaign Donation

  In case you missed it, Tea Partiers around the country are mad at the IRS. Long story short: the IRS isn't supposed to let any old group be exempt from paying taxes. Agency rules dictate that...' [...]
  From The Daily Pulp: Bob Norman's Blog at May 20, 2013, 8:17am in News

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• After Tea Party / IRS Debacle, Republicans Call for Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Return Campaign Donation

  In case you missed it, Tea Partiers around the country are mad at the IRS. Long story short: the IRS isn't supposed to let any old group be exempt from paying taxes. Agency rules dictate that...' [...]
  From The Juice at May 20, 2013, 8:17am in Politics, News

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• Hyde5 : Why I'm picking Heat over Pacers in 5 games

  I want to tap dance around this. I want to pick the Heat in six. I want to be safe. I want to say how tough an opponent Indiana is (true), how much a size advantage they have (true) and how the Heat have had trouble with them lately (1-2 [...]
  From Dave Hyde at May 20, 2013, 8:11am in Sports

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• Dissident artist in Cuba arrested by State Security, artwork confiscated

  Cuban dissident artist Danilo Maldonado, known as El Sexto, was arbitrarily arrested over the weekend by Cuban State Security and had artwork confiscated while he was held overnight in a Castro jail.

  Capitol Hill Cubans has the report:

  Cuban Artist's Paintings Confiscated

  Yesterday, the Castro regime's secret police burst into the home [...]

  From Babalú Blog at May 20, 2013, 8:08am in Cuba

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• Opening reception for Afrofuturism exhibit to be held at the Tubman African American Museum on May 24

  Painting by John Jennings. Image courtesy of the Tubman African American Museum

  According to Wikipedia, “Afrofuturism is an emergent literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to critique not only the present-day dilemmas of people [...]

  From Knight Arts at May 20, 2013, 8:00am in Arts and Entertainment

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