Ghanaian Afro-dancehall and reggae star Stonebwoy has remained committed to strengthening the blend between African and Jamaican music genres. The entertainer — who sat down with the Jamaica Observer ...

Join us this Caribana weekend for a live performance by Maurice Gordon and his band, Mojamm! This event will also include a discussion of the music, food, language, stories, culture, and icons of ...

British MC Tanya Muneera Williams is here to change your perception of Muslim women. In an essay in The Independent, Williams details her conversion, and how she defies conventional expectations of ...

I DON’T SPEAK PUTONGHUA or Cantonese and know little about China’s past – or present. Yet I – a British-born, American-raised, twentysomething of Chinese and Afro-Jamaican ancestry – travelled to ...

America's disaster aid and immigration responses reveal racial and political bias, showing more compassion toward European nations than Black Caribbean neighbors.

GATINEAU, QC, Feb. 22, 2023 /CNW/ - National historic designations encourage us to acknowledge both the triumphs and the struggles that have led us to the Canada of today, and help us reflect on how ...

Several years back, Australian ex-pat Chris Flanagan (aka DJ and reggae enthusiast Earl Grey) came across a mysterious track by a young Jamaican singer (mis-credited to Shella Record) on a reggae ...

Black people are not a monolith. There are Black communities formed as a result of slavery, erased of their history and ethnic identity, Black diaspora from Africa, Caribbean and South America.

In the early colonial period, Jamaican slaves manufactured pottery that incorporated traditional West African technology with selected European innovations. Recent examination of Afro-Jamaican wares ...

NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Vol. 99, No. 1/2 (2025), pp. 56-91 (36 pages) This article centers what provision grounds meant to and for Afro-Jamaican apprentice laborers, ...