En 
Ar The melody hung in the air like the bodies it mourned. When Billie Holiday first sang "Strange Fruit" at Café Society in 1939, white patrons filed out "one party after another," fleeing from the mirror she held up to their complicity.
All Stories
Jamaica's Port Royal receives UNESCO recognition 333 years after earthquake swallowed two-thirds of the Caribbean's most notorious city
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, August 27, 2025 - At 11:43 a.m. on June 7,...
MONTEGO BAY, August 3, 2025 - As Jamaica approaches its 63rd anniversary of political independence from Britain on August 6, 2025, the shadow of the hidden Jamaican Slave Holocaust looms...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, August 2, 2025 - By Profs. Verene Shepherd and Ahmed Reid -Another Emancipation Day has come and gone; but in all the events held to mark the day and...
Jamaica's Historical Contradiction
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica. July 26, 2025 - By Lenworth Fulton with contributions from Calvin G. Brown and Shalman Scott - In 1975, the Michael Manley-led PNP government declared Sam...
MIAMI, Florida, July 18, 2025 - On this sweltering Miami Friday, fifty souls are making a journey that will reverse particular currents of history. Not the brutal, involuntary crossing that...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, By Curtis Myrie - July 18, 2025 - Departing South Florida on Friday, July 18, a team of fifty - 24 performers from the Jamaican Folk Revue and the...
In May 2024, the United Methodist Church (UMC) held its General Conference in North Carolina, USA, where a controversial vote was passed to end the ban on openly practicing homosexual...
KINGSTON, Jamaica April 14, 2025 - BY Verene Shepherd & Ahmed Reid. - On April 4, a film on anti-slavery activist, Chief Takyi, enslaved on Frontier sugar plantation in Jamaica’s...
TORONTO, Canada, March 18, 2025 - The ancient stones of St. James Cathedral reverberated with unexpected rhythms on Sunday as one of Toronto's oldest Anglican churches traded traditional hymns for...