The Labor Day weekend means one thing to New York’s West Indian American community: the West Indian American Carnival! Now...

On July 21st, the Institute of Jamaica opened an historic exhibition entitled, Rastafari: Unconquerable! It is the first exhibition in...

It wasn’t hard to miss this colorful object, called a dove harp, that was part of an exhibition on view...

The gumbay drum caught my attention at the Accompong Maroon Festival in January. I’d never seen a drum that was...

Those of you who read my posts last year about Jamaica marking 50 years of independence from Britain might be...

Emancipation Day, August 1st, marks the day slaves in Jamaica and the former British colonies in the Caribbean, were finally...

Akwantu: the Journey, a new documentary film by writer/director, Roy T. Anderson, a Maroon, answers the question, Who were the...

Food is an integral part of our lives. And on Thanksgiving, we give thanks with one of the biggest feasts...

Norman Washington Manley was born in the parish of Manchester on July 4, 1893. He was a Rhodes scholar and...

Much of what is known about Nanny, or Granny Nanny as she’s also called, has been gained from oral history....