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Jesse Helms

Jesse Helms was a five-term senator from North Carolina and a longtime conservative champion. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he was one of the most powerful men on Capitol Hill…

Elian Gonzalez, 1999 News

5, became the poster boy for an anti-Castro campaign after he was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard in Nov. in waters off Miami. The boy, his mother, her boyfriend, and 14 other Cubans had…

Maggie Rodriguez

Maggie Rodriguez has been an anchor on the CBS morning program The Early Show since 2007. The daughter of Cuban refugees, Rodriguez graduated from the University of Miami in 1991 with a degree in…

Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball was American TV's most popular comedienne for over a decade, beloved for her blazing red hair and slapstick situation comedy gags. Lucille Ball starred in five different TV shows during…

Kwanzaa Party! — Various Artists

Rounder The year's finest world-music anthology succeeds partly because it doesn't try to be a rip-roaring introduction to everything or some sort of crossover dream. As the title indicates,…

Alberto Juantorena

Alberto JuantorenaBorn: Dec. 3, 1950Cuban runner won both 400m and 800m gold medals at 1976 Olympics.Jackie Joyner-KerseeG - JSonny Jurgensen

Roberto C. Goizueta Biography

Roberto C. GoizuetaAge: 65 Cuban refugee who became chief executive of Coca-Cola Company, strengthening company's global dominance in field. Died: Oct. 18, 1997Kermit Goell1997 DeathsMoe…

Daisy Fuentes

A Cuban-American model and personalty, Daisy Fuentes was one of the most visible MTV stars of the 1990s. Born in Havana, Cuba, Daisy Fuentes went to high school in New Jersey and got her start…

Scarface

The 1983 movie Scarface starred Al Pacino as Tony Montana, a ruthless Cuban immigrant killing his way to the top of Miami's cocaine-crazy underworld. (The film was loosely inspired by the 1932 film…