Our SDG offers a stimulating  opportunity to examine Cuba"s  dramatic 500 year history and the country's deep and  troubling relationship with the United States.  It will explore themes of conquest, colonization, slavery, independence and revolutions leading to many thought-provoking and lively discussions. Based on 30 years of research, the core book is the 2022 Pulitzer prize winning — Cuba: An American History, by noted historian Ada Ferrer.  A sweeping chronicle of the island nation and it's people., Ferrer analyzes  pivotal moments such as the U.S. intervention in Cuba's War for Independence, the 1959 Cuban Revolution led by Fidel and Raul Castro and the failed invasion of the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ferrer's narrative contains previously hidden insights that resonate today and need to be considered.

Seeing Cuba's history through the eyes of the Cuban people, it is possible to understand the Cuban connection differently. Ferrer writes of the possibility for Cuba and the United States "to move beyond the enmity of the last 60 years and the long impositions before that to a better future relationship.“ We hope you will join us. There will be lots to discuss!!

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