CaribFest

10/21/2022

From roti shops to jerk stops to high-end culinary destinations, Caribbean immigrants have been bringing the flavour of their homelands to the GTA for decades.

12/09/2019

Black Woman Magic

Zozibini Tunzi succeeds Catriona Gray of the Philippines

12/03/2019

Interesting read and perspective...

Pam Brown Courtney was impressed with a community in her hometown of Little Rock so she went to check it out. The neighborhood was beautiful, nice and quaint but the people most certainly were not. As she went to look at some of the homes, it became obvious that the people were not very friendly …

11/27/2019

Beautiful read on her Immortal Life...

Lacks' cells have allowed for advances in cancer treatment, AIDS research, cloning, stem-cell studies and so much more.

11/20/2019

This lady is 65 yrs old, read again, 65 yrs old.
Let that sink in the next time you think all of this was ‘so long ago’...

On this day in 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges was escorted into William Frantz Elementary School by a team of U.S. Deputy Marshals, desegregating the public school system of New Orleans.

11/11/2019

Nov 11th...
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Sixteen thousand men and women from the Caribbean voluntarily enlisted for WW1.

11/11/2019

Interesting storyline... Fo you agree with the mom or the school?

Una Momolu was banned from her 11-year-old son’s school in September after a meeting about her son’s durag escalated. Momolu has asked the school...

10/31/2019

Heart of a Champion...
2020 Olympics

BY JOSEPH CUNNINGHAM In 1993, Merlene Ottey, the queen of Jamaica’s track and field caused Jamaicans at home and in the diaspora to be overwhelmed with joy, when she won the gold medal in an epic final at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. It was an achievement by the legendary sprinte...

10/30/2019

Something ain’t adding up here... 🤔🤔

Emmanuel K. Dogbevi, Ghana Business News A man in Ghana sorting out cocoa beans. Featured Image centuries, the economies of African countries have been made dependent on advanced economies, and despite the enormous amount of natural resources in Africa, over 500 million citizens continue to live in....

10/29/2019

Representation does matter.
There is much work to do...

Even in a city where some 90% of students are black or Hispanic, male teachers of color make up just 13% of Newark’s teachers.