Sixty African-American scholars and professionals condemned the Cuban regimes apparent crackdown on the countrys budding civil-rights movement. They issued a statement called Acting on Our Conscience which also called for the immediate release of imprisoned Afro-Cuban civil rights leaders. The public rebuke of Castros racial policies signed by prominent African-Americans like Cornell West, Ruby Dee and Mario Van Peebles just to name a few, may indicate a changing of the tide: We, the undersigned, join the growing international outcry against the unjust imprisonment by Cuban authorities of Dr. DARSI FERRER, an internationally known Afro‐Cuban civil rights leader and courageous man who for 17 days has endured a hunger strike and placed his life at risk to draw attention to the conditions of racism and racial discrimination in Cuba that has hitherto been ignored. CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE DOCUMENT! lanuevacuba/archivo2009/Dec/CUBA_statement.pdf
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