By Claudia Gardner (urbanisland)
Usain Bolt makes his dancehall debut as a producer behind the new “Olympe Rosé Riddim.” The excitement over Usain Bolt’s Olympe Rose Riddim is reaching a crescendo, less than 24 hours before it’s official release, with its five tracks, one each from some of Jamaica’s hottest artists. Dexta Daps, Christopher Martin, national footballer now music […]
Rihanna’s estimated net worth surpasses that of Madonna, Céline Dion and Beyoncé. (caribbean360.com)
Rihanna’s estimated net worth surpasses that of Madonna, Céline Dion and Beyoncé. (Photo: Rihanna’s Instagram) BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Fourteen years after breaking into the music industry, smashing records and creating history along the way, Barbadian singer and entrepreneur Rihanna has become the world’s wealthiest female music, according to Forbes. The business magazine has estimated the […]
Participants at the fbb Colors Femina Miss India East 2019 on April 23, 2019 in Kolkata,India. (Photo by Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Credit: Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto via Getty Images What began as an innocent collage of this year’s Miss India finalists has evolved into a heated social media debate about India’s obsession with fair skin. […]
New York City Council Member Andy King presenting the Franklin family with the New York City Council 12th District Music and Humanitarian Award. NEWARK – The 2019 McDonalds Gospelfest this weekend paid special tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, with an outstanding celebration with the Franklin Family and gospel artists who included Hezekiah […]
ON Saturday, May 4, Kiara Grant wrote her name in the history books as she became the fastest Jamaican junior female athlete over 100m when she finished second in 11.11 seconds at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Outdoors championships. The Norfolk State University sophmore lowered the previous best of 11.12s set by Veronica Campbell Brown […]
Legendary West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding (Photo: CMC) PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Outspoken fast bowling legend, Michael Holding, has welcomed the recent leadership change atop Cricket West Indies but says the regional governing body now needed to undergo serious constitutional change if it was to escape the cycle of poor governance, which […]
By Erin Telesford
How the Erasure of History Affects a Society “Human Zoos: America’s Forgotten History of Scientific Racism” is a documentary investigating the shocking exploitation of Darwinism as a means of justifying racism. The growth of scientific and evolutionary discovery in the 1850s led to the belief that a specific group of Africans was the so-called “missing […]
Sprint legend Usain Bolt poses with bottles of the Mumm Olympe Rosé at the launch event held at the Maslow Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa last Thursday. (Photo: contributed) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s sprint legend and budding global business mogul, Usain Bolt, has partnered with leading South African champagne brand, G H Mumm to create the […]
New York City Council Member Laurie A. Cumbo
The 35th Council District celebrates its own Spike Lee on his first Oscar win! His film BlacKkKlansman won Best Adapted Screenplay, and the night was historic for many! There were a total of seven Black artists who took home awards in seven different categories on Oscar Sunday. Regina King, Mahershala Ali, Peter Ramsey, Spike Lee, Ruth Carter, […]
19-Piece Collection Inspired by African Heritage NEW YORK, NY – February 14, 2019 – Jamaican-born New York designer Glenroy March didn’t disappoint this season and attendees at the Fall 2020 presentation on Monday, February 11 had high praises for House of D’Marsh. The presentation was held at The High School of Fashion Industries in New […]