VP Records Hosts Jamaican Alumni Association “True Blue Sound Clash” On Youtube

Tune in to the VP Records YouTube channel on Saturday, April 10th, 2021, at 7 pm for the Live broadcast of a friendly Sound Clash between St. George’s College Old Boys Association of Florida, Inc., and the Jamaica College Old Boys Association of Florida, Inc. The MC for the clash will be popular radio personality […]

Did You Know The First Black-Owned & Operated Newspaper in the US Was Co-Founded by a Jamaican

Jamaican John Brown Russwurm was one of the co-founders of the first Black-owned and operated newspaper in the United States. Together with Samuel Cornish, Russwurm founded the abolitionist newspaper, Freedom’s Journal. Born in Port Antonio in 1799 to an English father and an unknown, enslaved mother, Russwurm lived in Jamaica until 1807, when his merchant […]