Reggae Artists & Academics Pick Their Top 5 Bob Marley songs
Black history is celebrated in February. Bob Marley, King of Reggae Music birthday is February 6th. He would have been seventy four. Jamaicans.com asked several artistes, male and female, academic and literary to list their five favorite Bob Marley songs and why they chose these songs. Donna P. Hope Donna P. Hope is Professor […]
Photo Highlights: England Toppled at Kensington Oval in Barbados in First Test of 2019 West Indies Cricket Tour
Several thousand English cricket fans journeyed to the Caribbean island of Barbados with the aim of witnessing England prevail in the first Test (January 23—27) of their 2019 Cricket Tour against the West Indies. The hopes of the English tourists were quickly dashed, however, as England instead suffered a 381-run rout at the hands a […]
On This Day In Jamaican History: Bob Marley Was Born
On this day in history, February 6, 1945, world-renown reggae icon and social activist Robert Nesta Marley, aka Bob Marley, was born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. The Jamaican singer-songwriter became internationally famous for his blending of reggae, ska, and rocksteady genres, and beginning with the group The Wailers in 1963, created a […]
