Keren Kmanwey is a Cuban-born rapper who took some time to discuss her artistry and personal journey with us recently. Do you remember when you...
Keren Kmanwey es una rapera nacida en Cuba que recientemente se tomó un tiempo para hablar con nosotros sobre su arte y viaje personal. ¿Recuerdas...
Former Cuban political dissident Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo is now a writer and blogger advocating for his home country’s liberation from the current oppressive regime....
On July 11th of last year protests broke out all over Cuba over several issues, ranging from lack of food and medical access to the...
On July 11th of this year, the streets throughout the island of Cuba erupted with chants of “Libertad! Libertad!”. Immediately, both Cuban communist state media...
Cuban rapper Denis Solis was arrested by communist state security forces in November of 2020 and sentenced to prison for 8 months for “insulting” police....
Rosa María Payá is a human rights activist and founder of Cuba Decide, an initiative that is attempting re-introduce democracy to the Cuban island. She...
(Silverio Portal Contreras blinded by Cuban police beatings and currently imprisoned for protesting against the communist regime) The American left’s hostility towards minorities who think...
Knowing others through their written words, trapped inside of time within a small room, enemies using your past words against you and other troubles are...
Lin Zhao was an enthusiastic member of the Chinese Communist Party but in time her comrades would sentence her to death. Professor Xi Lian comes...
Author Lisa See comes Back By the Woodpile to give us a history lesson on the Korean Jeju Island, the Haenyeo women divers and how...
Marcell Felipe the both founder of the Inspire America Foundation– an organization dedicated to promoting democracy in Cuba and the Americas- and the Chairman of the...
Dr. Jaime Suchlicki of the Cuban Study Institute comes Back By the Woodpile to talk Jose Marti, Eduardo Chibás, Jewish-Cuban History, the current state of Cubans...
Cigar Snob Magazine’s Nicolás A. Jiménez joins us to talk the history of cigars, Cuba, politics and a little about his own adventures both outside and...
Bay of Pigs Veteran Bill Muir reflects on his life in Cuba before Castro, his work in the underground while the Communists ruled the country,...
Taoist Scholar Livia Kohn returns Back by the Woodpile to talk about her new book Taoist China, which is a look at the current state of the practice...
The Chinese Communist Party without a doubt affects our daily lives without us knowing it. Epoch Times’ Joshua Philipp comes Back By the Woodpile to explain this...
More philosophical tango, this time around touching on suppression of speech, everyone getting offended, riding on the fumes of past dreams, unheard words, thoughts missed...
Another philosophical discussion, this time around on such light subjects as martyrdom, socialism, forgiveness, failure and spilling huckleberries. Click here to find on iTunes! Click...
(‘Chai’ art by Huxley King) Imagine if the mayor of your town was blackmailing you for money or your property. And if you refused him,...