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Caribbean leaders boycott Pompeo talks as row grows over US relations The prime ministers of Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago are boycotting a scheduled meeting with the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, in a growing row between Caribbean nations who are open to improved relations with the...

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March 13. 2019 In just nine weeks since the beginning of 2019, Jamaica has been able to generate foreign exchange earnings of approximately $800 million after being the first Caribbean destination to welcome one million visitors during the period. Jamaica is first Caribbean country to...

Lets give props where it's due to arguably the first non ADOS people to advocate for reparations in the political arena :salute: not for herself, not for immigrants, she distinctly stated descendants of slaves. It's important to acknowledge so we can dispel this notion that non ADOS are against...

I dig through archives to unearth hidden stories from African-American history By Jane Landers, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University Many years ago, as a graduate student searching in the archives of Spanish Florida, I discovered the first “underground railroad” of enslaved Africans...

The tech investment wave has reached Latin America So the Tech Wave has hit Latin America, but "somehow" skipped right over Caribbean. What can we do to prevent this from happening or continue to happen?

even 2nd generations. :russ::russ::russ: I still go through this even to this day :snoop: But this video is hilarious. :damn:

When people talk about the war against white supremacy, they always talk about AAs & Africa. I mean, rightfully so. AAs have had the most vocal/significant movements for black empowerment, and Africa is the world's breadbasket. But, no one ever brings up the West Indies. 43 million people on...

Operation Red Dog was the code name of a 1981 military filibustering plot by Canadianand American citizens, largely affiliated with white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan groups, to overthrow the government of Dominica, where they planned to restore former Prime Minister Patrick John to power. The...

:shaqooh:It's time for Carnival big up @JulesWinfield and all my Caribbean posters and Caribbean music loving posters. its time for an official soca thread please post your favorite joints, videos, dances, memories, history, etc. for those who don't know:

Harry Belafonte (r) with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King at the March on Montgomery, 1965. Harry Belafonte has been a household name across the United States and around much of the world for seventy years. He’s ninety now—and his legendary resonant voice is a bit harder to...

In reponse to the folks who said that the DACA issue ain't our problem @ridedolo @JudgeJoeGorilla @Gravity @DatLBCGuy562 and a whole bunch of other guys

As I was casually clicking on YouTube videos out of pure boredom, I just so happen to stumble upon this video basically this Jamaican woman is cosigning what Umar was saying about how the Chinese are colonizing the island for themselves and, there seems to be many Jamaicans agreeing with her in...

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Modern African music is highly influenced and based upon cultural innovations from Afro-descendants in the Americas. This thread is dedicated to exploring those connections and highlighting the music in Africa that makes us smile, tap our feet and move while appreciating that the Afro-Atlantic...

Hurricane Warnings from just north of Miami to South Carolina

Who's going?

Trini, Lucians or Bajans :unsure: African rich chicks, prob daughters of diplomats :drool: BX or BK Latinas :unsure: New York sistahs :smile: London cockney sistahs :no: London posh ones :wub: Houston :yes: LA :wub: ?

is it that serious:mjpls:

#JaColi :demonic: I think its about time we all came out the shadows and took the locker room over for the better. 2016 belongs to the Yard Man! @Sukairain @MikeyC @Don Ibiza Ibrahimovic @prince_peoples @BushidoBrown @Lion-INI-spear222 @Kilimanjaro @Gorgonite @yardman @wusgood @Pegasus...