Feeling the Spirit of the Islands at South Florida’s 2019 Caribbean Village Festival

This year’s fifth installment of the annual Caribbean Village Festival was held on June 23rd at the Regional Park Amphitheater in Miramar, Florida. In prior years, the festival was sitused in Lauderhill at the Sports Park.   During the summer in South Florida, it is rainy season so there was definitely a value-add in holding the […]

Jamaican Dancehall Queen Spice Winner of 2019 MTV Movie and TV Awards

Spice, the Jamaican dancehall queen, represented the Caribbean community well at the 2019 MTV Movie and TV Awards event at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. Tracy-Ann “Roxxi” Chung, the public relations coordinator for playbookmg.com, which is based in Brooklyn, New York, said that Spice wore a striking yellow gown that “brought the sunshine […]

Jamaican Heritage of Kamala Harris Cited in Racist Birtherism Campaign Online

As California Senator Kamala Harris becomes more prominent in her bid to become the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2020 presidential election, a racist “birtherism” campaign is targeting her on social media online. Twitter has been the site of birtherism’s resurgence as Donald Trump Jr. echoes the racist attacks that his father brought […]