Marcus Garvey: Falling Star
There is something almost Shakespearean about the meteoric rise and spectacular fall of Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Known today as one of the...
Hail to the Chief
Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey, by Colin Grant (Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-536794-2, 530 pp) Colin Grant...
Phagwah: Rites of spring
New York City’s “Little Guyana” — near the southern boundary of the Richmond Hill neighbourhood in Queens — is home to Guyanese...
Who Dat? New Orleans’ Caribbean connections
When I landed in New Orleans, I began to look for connections, as you do in strange places. Everyone said the city was so much like...
The Old Man and the Sea – from Cuba with love
Ernest Hemingway is the kind of writer you either love or loathe. His macho persona and trademark terse, journalistic style alienate many...
Islands in the stream
A lonely and unloved wife has an affair with the man whom her husband has hired as her tutor. A complicated and finally tragic three-way...
A blog called Afrobella
The first time someone recognised Patrice Grell Yursik as her beauty-blogging alter ego Afrobella, she was at the grocery store in Miami,...
The Caribbean Trade Barriers Come Down
Trading opportunities in the 13-nation Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) group will increase substantially from this year, as...
