Are you going to Jerk Festival in NYC this year? This Sunday, July 21st, the 9th annual Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival will take place at Roy Wilkins Park. Over 20,000 patrons will be attending…
JAH CURE IS CALLING ALL ‘ROYAL SOLDIERS’ TO KEEP THE STREETS OF KENYA CLEAN
Grammy-nominated Reggae artiste Jah Cure is calling all royal soldiers to keep the streets of the Motherland clean. The ‘Call On Me’ singer teamed up with Governor Mike Sonko for a cleaning campaign i…
VP Records Teamed Up With FitnessBK To Launch Soca Gold Fitness 2019
Welcome to Carnival Season in NYC! Teeny frontline costumes adorned with bright feathers and bedazzled headpieces strut down Eastern Parkway every labor day to the sounds of sweet soca! All aboard! Ar…
Music as a Gateway to Activism
Music as a Gateway to Activism By: Peter Ivey and Karetta Crooks Charles “Music is community service in the form of melodies,” so says Jermaine Joseph, better known as “Autarchii”. How simple yet prof…
Mission:FoodPossible Tackles Food Insecurity in Jamaican Schools
By: Peter Ivey and Karetta Crooks Charles The lives of 16 canteen workers, parents and teachers at the St. John’s Primary School will never be the same again after two intense days of learning about f…
Claudette D. Powell, RN, BSN, MA
Claudette Powell is a registered professional nurse. Her career and experience span over 20 years in home health care administration, encompassing hospital and community-based programs. Claudette’s st…
Alicia L. Hyndman
Alicia L. Hyndman was elected to the New York State Assembly on November 10, 2015, in the 29th AD, encompassing the neighborhoods of Laurelton, Rosedale, Springfield Gardens, St. Albans, Addisleigh Pa…
Celebrity Emcee For The Big Awards Gala Ms. Gail Lewis
Gail Lewis has a passion for and a commitment to teaching. Professionally, Gail Lewis teaches Communications at the City University of New York. When not in a lecture hall instructing undergraduates,…
QUEEN MAJESTY ARETHA FRANKLIN
WHEREITZAT SALUTES YOU – THE QUEEN OF SOUL! IN JAMAICA WE HAVE A UNIQUE WAY OF SAYING STUFF…. “WE LOVE YOU AND CHERISH THE JOY YOU BROUGHT TO US – NUFF RESPECT!”…
A Tale of Two Jamaicas: “Town or Country?”
Part 1: “Town”
By Peter Ivey If you are planning to visit Jamaica and you find yourself deeply conflicted with the question of whether to stay on the island’s coast or in the big, little city of Kingston, then welco…
Let Us Make Dictator: An American Nightmare
By Marc Albritton “This morning I woke up in curfew. Dear lord I was a prisoner too. Could not recognize the faces stand over me. All dressed in uniforms of brutality.” These hauntingly prophetic word…
BLACK PANTHER: A Review
By Annette Gordon If you are the only person left who hasn’t seen the movie, Black Panther, here is why you should go see it. The storyline is about a fictional country in Africa named Wakanda, which …
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