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Diving for history: A Black genealogist's search for slave ship wrecks on Florida's ocean floor

With a measuring tape and waterproof notepad in hand, Shellie Baxter swims around a shipwreck embedded into the ocean’s floor in the Florida Keys. The water is warmer than the San Diego shores she’s used to, but this is still her most challenging dive yet – she is learning how to document slave shipwrecks.

As a genealogist, Baxter has helped over 150 people trace their ancestral roots through her organization Our Genetic Legacy, a non-profit committed to uncovering the hidden histories Black and Indigenous people.

“Our end goal here is to do archeological research underwater to help find sunken slave ships and document them.” Baxter said, looking at the ocean.

Five years later, the wound of 11 July in Cuba remains open

On 11 July 2021, thousands of people in Cuba took to the streets to demand freedom, electricity, human rights, and a dignified life. The State responded with brutal repression against activists and protesters.

Many faced arbitrary detention, threats, forced exile, trials without due process, and disproportionate sentences. Their families have also borne the absence of their loved ones, fear, and persecution for demanding justice.

Five years later, 11 July remains an unresolved debt for the Cuban State.

According to Justicia 11J, there are at least 823 people deprived of liberty for political reasons in Cuba. Meanwhile, the crisis that led many people to protest five years ago has only deepened. Today, the population faces prolonged daily power outages, since October 2024, the entire country has experienced eight total collapses of the National Electric System as well as food shortages and the constant deterioration of basic services. In response, so far in 2026, 614 spontaneous public protests have been recorded, and they continue to be met with heavy repression.

South Florida’s Cuban community rally for freedom in Little Havana on 5th anniversary of historic protest

MIAMI (WSVN) – South Florida’s Cuban exile community honored the anniversary of a historic demonstration with one of their own while there was another island-wide blackout.

South Florida’s Cuban exile community gathered in Little Havana on Saturday to honor the fifth anniversary.

Thousands of Cubans flooded the streets of Calle Ocho to march against the troubled island and demand freedom.

Saturday’s Freedom March and Liberation Rally are to honor those who protested against the Castro communist regime, call for the release of political prisoners who are still being held in Cuba, and to continue to fight for Cuba’s freedom.

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