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Jamaica top of the Heap - Writer wins Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Caribbean

Emerging as the Caribbean winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize has stunned celebrated Jamaican author and theatre director Brian Heap, who initially planned to use the competition as a spark to complete a work he had been fiddling with for five

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Coronavirus causes learning losses

“Even before the COVID pandemic, we were already faced with a very serious challenge in education, which is a global learning

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaican track pioneer Isis Clarke-Reid dies at 100

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s first track and field star, Isis Clarke-Reid, died at her Port St Lucie, Florida, home on Monday, June 8, after a brief

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Kimora Lee Simmons

Kimora Lee Simmons is a designer, former fashion model and businesswoman. She was born on May 4, 1975 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother is of Japanese and Korean descent but was adopted by an American family during the Korean War so she grew up in America. Her father is of African American

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May

4

1975

(1946) W.E. B. DuBois, “Behold the Land”

On October 20, 1946, seventy-eight year old W.E.B DuBois delivered the address at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature in Columbia South Carolina. Although this was one of his last major orations, he used the occasion to inspire his audience to continue the struggle for racial

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Source: Black Past

Oct

20

1946

Angola

U.S. Department of State Background Note

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Cuba

The largest island of the West Indies group (equal in area to Pennsylvania), Cuba is also the westernmost—just west of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and 90 mi (145 km) south of Key West, Fla., at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico. The island is mountainous in the southeast and

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WHO warns of pressure on Latin American health systems

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — With nearly 30,000 dead in Brazil and more than 10,000 dead in Mexico, the novel coronavirus pandemic threatens to shatter hospital systems across Latin America — while France, which is emerging from a similar nightmare scenario, began on Tuesday a gradual return to

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King, Coretta Scott

King, Coretta Scott | FactMonster

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New Bedford

New Bedford | FactMonster

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(1852) Frederick Douglass, “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July”

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion not to celebrate the nation’s triumphs but

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Source: Black Past

Jul

5

1852

This Day in History — June 16

1977: Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev is named president, becoming the first person to hold both posts

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(1843) Henry Highland Garnet, "An Address To The Slaves Of The United States"

The National Negro Convention of 1843 was held in Buffalo, New York drawing some seventy delegates a dozen states. Among the delegates were young, rising leaders in the African American community including Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Charles B. Ray and Charles L. Remond. Twenty-seven

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Million$ drug bust - Ganja valued at J$10.5m seized, three Bahamians nabbed

The weed was confiscated in an operation at Lances Bay, Hanover, in which three Bahamian nationals were

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Oliver Clarke dies - Media giant passes away at home at 75

A central figure in corporate Jamaica, Clarke played a pivotal role in the establishment of the powerful Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) in 1976 and was later immortalised among its esteemed leadership over the years when he was inducted into the organisation’s Hall of Fame in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, “Slavery and the Irish”

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Grave says CWI ‘optimistic’ ahead of second ECB meeting

According to CWI chief executive, Johnny Grave, the two boards had a productive first meeting two weeks ago which included all the key stakeholders from captains to chief medical

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Documentary Films on Blackpast.org - Global African History - Director

Films - By Director | Films - By Title | Films - Year | Films - By Subject | Entire Site Bibliography

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Atlantic slave trade

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U.S. Supreme Court Protects California’s Dreamers – Voice and Viewpoint

On June 18, the United States Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

GABF to participate in FIBA U17 Skills Challenge

Following the cancellation of the 2020 U17 Basketball World Cup by the world governing body due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF), has confirmed their participation in the International Federation of Association Basketball (FIBA) ‘FIBA U17 Skills

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Joyce Cacho, Ph.D.

Joyce Cacho, Ph.D., CAMS is Principal, Adinura Advisory, an integrative strategy and accountability consulting firm for corporate and public sector clients. Experienced in finance and risk management, Joyce excelled in matrixed organizations structures in manufacturing, and banking

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US Republicans could be key to resuscitating Caribbean tourism

As Caribbean tourism rebounds, marketers are looking to Republican-leaning Americans to be among the first set of visitors to return to the region’s shores based on an in-depth social sentiment data

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

African-American history

African-American history is the part of American history that looks at the African-American or Black American ethnic groups in the United States. Most African Americans are the descendants of Africans forcibly brought to and held captive in the United States from 1555 to 1865. Blacks from the

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Jan

1

1863

African Americans and Cuba's First Experiment in Tourism: The Joe Louis Commission in Post Revolutionary Havana, 1959-1960

In the article below University of California, Riverside historian Ralph Crowder describes this fascinating but little known attempt by Joe Louis and Fidel Castro to encourage middle class African American tourism to Cuba in the first year of the new

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Source: Black Past

Jun

6

1960

Some small-island economies could collapse under the weight of COVID-19 - Mottley

One of the Caribbean’s most experienced politicians, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, has raised the grim spectre that some small-island developing states – numbered among which are several Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries – could simply collapse under what might become the

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Nieto Gil: Did Colombia whitewash the legacy of its only black President?

This article was given to The City Paper as an exclusive for Colombia by its author Gonzalo

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Source: The City Paper Bogotá

Government looking at low cost insurance for tourists

Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, says discussions are in the final stages with insurance and global logistics providers to enable travellers who test positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) to be quickly isolated and

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, New Haven, Connecticut (1844- )

Established on June 7, 1844, Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church of New Haven, Connecticut, is the fourth oldest black Episcopal Church in the United States. Born of the righteous indignation of its founding members over continuing acts of racial discrimination meted out by the white vestry of Trinity

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Marshall and Dutchin among featured artistes on regional unity song

Guyanese Timeka Marshall and Adrian Dutchin are among 25 artistes from 14 Caribbean countries who have joined their voices for a song to give hope during the current

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