Jamaican-American Designer Brandon Blackwood Featured on a Billboard in New York Times Square

The Jamaican American designer, Brandon Blackwood, was featured on a billboard in Times Square in New York City. The designer, who rose to fame in 2020 with his ESR purse, is on Spotify’s billboard advertisement with the words “Fashion Forward” and “Playlist Takeover.” The ad includes a depiction of Blackwood holding five of his signature […]

Risk Pays Off as British Jamaican Adjani Salmon Takes His Web Series from YouTube to BBC Pilot and BAFTA Award

In 2017, Adjani Salmon, an actor, writer, and director who was born in London and raised in Jamaica, took a big risk and used his mother’s mortgage deposit to fund a film project, promising her that he would make her proud and that her investment would bring rewards in time. He made good on his […]

Mavis Chin (1931-2022) – Saluting 60 Jamaican Women

From the little village of Tweedside in the parish of Clarendon, Mavis Chin, a little girl with a Chinese surname, was honoured by the Queen of England for her services to drama. Mavis Chin migrated to England in her twenties on a Jamaican scholarship, worked and went to evening classes and was so bright that […]