• Fri, 30 October 2026

Julie Mango Uses Comedy Sketches as Advocate for Mental Health Solutions

Juliet Bodley - Julie Mango Jamaican Comedian and Influencer

Jamaican Juliet Bodley, who is best known as the comedian Julie Mango but who is also a trained pilot with a degree in engineering management, uses her comedy sketches to reach a high goal, which is to give people the tools to face and overcome their mental health problems. She was ecstatic to be a […]

Marjorie Whylie, CD – Saluting 60 Jamaican Women

Marjorie Whylie - National Dance Theatre Company - Jamaican

As a little girl, Marjorie Whylie was so fascinated with music, especially the piano that she decided what when she grew up she would learn everything and do everything connected with music. And she did. She started playing the piano at two-plus, performed in public at age five, and began formal lessons at six. She […]

Walter Tull, Barbados – Caribbean Man of Influence

Walter Tull

Professional footballer and officer in the British Army Walter Daniel John Tull was born in Britain in 1888. Hie father was from Barbados, and his mother was from Kent. His parents died when he was a child and he ultimately grew up in the Methodist Children’s Home and Orphanage in Bethnal Green in London. He […]

Mary Seacole, OM – Saluting 60 Jamaican Women

Mary Seacole - A Great Jamaican

For as long as she could remember, Mary Seacole had two dreams – to be a nurse and to travel. When cholera and yellow fever epidemics broke out in Kingston where she was born to a British soldier and a Jamaican nurse and healer, Mary helped her mother, who had a boarding house, to nurse […]

Louise Little, Grenada – Caribbean-American Woman of Influence

Louise Little - the mother of Malcolm X

Louise Little, the mother of Malcolm X, was born Louise Helen Norton Langdon in La Digue, St. Andrew Parish in Grenada. She is credited with having a major influence on her son, Malcolm X, and his political and social views, giving him his sense of Black pride. Her mother, Ella Langdon, was the daughter of […]

Jamaican American TV Anchor Sharon Lawson Wins Emmy

Sharon Lawson

Sharon Lawson, a Jamaican American reporter and anchor of “Good Day Atlanta” on WAGA-TV in Atlanta, Georgia, won a 2022 Emmy Award in the Health and Medical News category for her feature story, “Journey to be Fibroids Free.” Upon winning the award, Lawson posted to social media, thanking her husband, Chris Pappas, her editor Thako […]