August 11 has been officially designated World Steelpan Day. The United Nations made the declaration on Monday at the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Introducing the resolution for the declaration of World Steelpan Day before the General Assembly, Randall Mitchell, Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Tourism, Culture and the […]
Gloria Carter, the mother of American rapper Jay-Z, has married her longtime girlfriend, Trinidadian Roxanne Wiltshire. The wedding took place at Tribeca 360º in Manhattan, New York last Sunday. Present at the ceremony were Jay-Z and his wife, Beyoncé, who took a break from her Renaissance Tour to attend the nuptials, and their daughter, Blue […]
There will be no “Naylors only” party in Cleveland, but the family of Guardians brothers Josh and Bo still has plenty to celebrate. Youngest sibling Myles, a 6-foot-2, 195-pound infielder from Mississauga, Ontario, was selected Sunday by Oakland with the 39th overall pick in the 2023 MLB Draft. Myles becomes the third Naylor brother from […]
On a visit to Haiti UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed solidarity with the Haitian people “facing a terrible and mutually reinforcing cycle of… crises”, and urged deployment of an international force to assist the National Police in combating gang violence. The UN chief expressed deep concern at the extreme vulnerability faced by the Haitian people […]
Listen to this now. By Carlton Joseph The conservative, US Supreme Court has again decided to break with precedent, and declared that race-conscious admissions policies at colleges and universities across the country are unlawful, effectively ending affirmative action in education. It also ruled that President Biden administration overstepped its authority in trying to implement a […]
created the Lego scene in the new Spider-Verse film Fourteen-year-old Preston Mutanga from Milton, Ont., recreated the characters he saw in the trailer of Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse to look Lego-style characters. After hisis YouTube posting if his work was noticed by filmmaking team Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, he was offered to animate a […]
New York Mayor Eric Adams has recently announced a formal partnership with LISA Project NYC to create 50 murals celebrating 50 years of hip hop across all five boroughs. A release on the NYC.gov website states, “As the birthplace of this cultural movement, New York City is celebrating 50 years of history through the […]
Listen to this article now. By Carlton Joseph We live in a world where people of color, especially colonized people, were taught that culture and education make a person, if you pursued education everything would be okay. In the Caribbean, a few scholarships were awarded, children achieving very high marks on the exams set by […]
First Secretary at the Antigua and Barbuda Mission to the United Nations, Asha Challenger, was elected to serve as Vice President of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution. Challenger was elected to the role unanimously during the second session of the INC, which concluded in Paris France last Friday, a statement from the […]
The creators of the popular Ubersoca Cruise have launched the UberAfro Cruise, a four-night luxury cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas from November 21-25, 2023. The inaugural cruise will depart from Miami, Florida and will stop in Ocho Rios, Jamaica before returning to Miami. In a press statement Founder and CEO Nathaniel Turner […]
