Oh, man, those black beans. Martinez’s black beans, too, are a smoky-rich must-try. Pressure cooked with vegetables, garlic, brown sugar and spices including pimenton, Bencomo and I oohed and aahed.

Lino was one of the dozens of Black Cubans and Puerto Ricans drawn to Jim Crow Alabama in the late 1890s through 1920s to attend what was then known as the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute ...