By Vaneisa Baksh ● Issue 87 (September/October 2007)
“Worrell not for captain”
No more than three months after the historic tied Test at the Gabba in Brisbane, Australia, CLR James would aggressively insist that Frank...
Culture, Literature, Arts, United Kingdom
By Jeremy Taylor ● Issue 58 (November/December 2002)
Yours Sincerely, Nello
“In March 1932 I boarded the boat for Plymouth. I was about to enter the arena where I was to play the role for which I had prepared...
Culture, Literature, History, People
By Tony Martin ● Issue 56 (July/August 2002)
Caribbean voices, Caribbean thinkers
C.L.R James, Marcus Garvey, Eric Williams, Francis Williams, Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, J.B. Philippe, John Brown Russwurm, Edward...
Culture, Literature, Arts, Barbados
By Simon Lee ● Issue 55 (May/June 2002)
An afternoon with George Lamming
In contrast to the idyllic Caribbean calm of Barbados’s “platinum” west coast, the sea at Bathsheba on the east coast is wild,...
Arts, People, United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago
By Jeremy Taylor ● News & Online Exclusives
Excavating Claudia Jones
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, by Carole Boyce Davies (Duke University Press, ISBN...
By Jeremy Taylor ● News & Online Exclusives
Eyes left
Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical’s Story, by Paul Buhle (University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 1-57806-851-7, 272 pp) Ronald...