Jamaican-American, Cornelius Tulloch, Receives The Prestigious YoungArts Jorge M. Pérez Award

Jamaican-American, Cornelius Tulloch has been named the 2023 YoungArts Jorge M. Pérez Award winner. Tulloch, a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist and designer, 2016 YoungArts award winner in Design Arts and Visual Arts, and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, will receive an unrestricted award of$25,000. “YoungArts is grateful to The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation for recognizing […]

First Black Woman to Head a Fed Bank Talks about How the Influence of Her Jamaican Heritage

Susan Collins, 63, made history in the summer of 2022 when she was selected to lead the Boston Federal Reserve bank, a regional bank. She is the first Black woman to serve in that role. In a Bloomberg feature she cites her experience spending summers with family members in Jamaica with introducing her to issues […]