Art &#038; Culture

Summer 2021 Must Reads Curated by the BCLF

Caribbean reads provide the perfect reading escape this summer. With the borders still pretty much half-shuttered around the world, the range and breadth of stories written by Caribbean authors do a

Juneteenth – FREE-ish Since 1865

Juneteenth is here! A holiday and special day of liberation & celebration commemorating the announcement of the end of enslaving African Americans in the southern United States. Juneteenth aka Emancipation

DJ Gringo and Blvk H3ro Unite For “Alien In New York – The Blend Project”

Jamaica And NYC Creatives Link Up for Space Age Audio Visual Mixtape DJ Gringo, the NYC-based chief of Stateside Revolution Sound System and host of “The Perfect Blend” on SiriusXM The Joint, has

The Origin of Black History Month—And Why it Still Matters

Lonnie G. Bunch III No one has played a greater role in helping all Americans know the Black past than Carter G. Woodson, the individual who created Negro History Week

Rex Nettleford Jamaican Genius

Prof. Hon. Ralston ‘REX’ Nettleford OM, FIJ, OCC February 3, 1933 – February 2, 2010 The computer was a mere thought in 1933, the year Rex Nettleford was born in

Miss Patricia ‘Miss Pat’ Chin to Receive Icon Award From City Of Miramar

Pioneering businesswoman Patricia Chin, Co-founder of VP Records and Reggae Ambassadors Third Word and, are the recipients of this year’s Reggae Icon Awards, presented by City of Miramar Commissioner Alexander

Musician Chantal Esdelle on how the pandemic is bringing Trinidad & Tobago Carnival back to itself

“It is a return…” This Story by Janine Mendes-Franco originally appeared on GlobalVoices.org on February 2, 2021 It’s no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the cancellation of Trinidad and Tobago’s 2021

Levi Roots

While we figure out what drives the Jamaican spirit, I will share another success story with you and like me you’ll wonder – how did he become another history maker?

AMANDA GORMAN – POETIC GENIUS

By Clive Williams At 22, Amanda Gorman is already a Harvard graduate and poetic genius, capturing the Power, Majesty and Potential of the American Dream as eloquently as she captures

Percy Lavon Julian

By Neal B. Abraham, DePauw University Percy L. Julian (1899–1975) was an internationally acclaimed synthetic organic chemist. Only the third African American to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry, he specialized