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Calvin G. Brown Culture 19 January 2025

JAMAICA | Biden Pardons Pan Africanist Marcus Garvey, Righting a Century-Old Wrong

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, January 19, 2025 -In a historic move that rights a century-old injustice, President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey, the influential Black nationalist leader whose 1920s mail fraud conviction had long been denounced as politically motivated.

Calvin G. Brown Culture 19 January 2025

JAMAICA | Biden Pardons Pan Africanist Marcus Garvey, Righting a Century-Old Wrong

JAMAICA | Maroons Unite With African Diaspora to Establish Landmark Institute

KINGSTON, Jamaica, January 16, 2025 - In the heart of Kingston, Jamaica where rebellion once echoed through the hills, the island’s Maroon communities are making history again – this time...

WiredJA News Team Culture 17 January 2025

CULTURE | PART 2 - "Church of England Asked to Get On with the Reparations Program"

TORONTO, Canada, September 21, 2024 - The leadership of the Church of England must demonstrate its commitment to reparations and repairing the damage caused by British colonial legacies and the...

Cikiah Thomas and Isaac Saney Culture 21 September 2024

JAMAICA | Enslaver John Gladstone held enslaved Africans in St. Elizabeth, Hanover, St. Mary and St. Thomas

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, August 26, 2023 - The descendants of Sir John Gladstone, First Baronet of Fasque and Balfour,on Friday offered apologies for his actions in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade...

WiredJA News Team Culture 26 August 2023

Timbuktu manuscripts placed online are only a sliver of West Africa’s ancient archive

The ancient Timbuktu manuscripts of Mali were back in the headlines following internet giant Google’s initiative to host a collection of them at an online gallery. The images of the...

WiredJA News Team Culture 31 December 2022

CARIBBEAN | CCJ Judge authors book on “The Law of the Sea in the Caribbean”

PLANTATION, Florida, August 10, 2022 - The Caribbean sea represents the lifeblood of the economies of the Caribbean. Countries that for centuries have been washed by its waters which has...

Calvin G. Brown Culture 10 August 2022

BRITAIN | Boris Johnson shifts his Migrant/Refugee problems to Rwanda under partnership with Paul Kagami

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, April 14, 2022 - As the problem of re-settlement of the world's refugees continue to challenge many nations of the world, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has...

WiredJA News Team Culture 14 April 2022

UNITED STATES | What is Thanksgiving to indigenous people? ¨A day of mourning¨

Washington, Nov 25 (Prensa Latina) For many, rather than a celebration of peace and shared prosperity between Native American tribes and Pilgrims, Thanksgiving represents the dark shadow of genocide and...

WiredJA News Team Culture 26 November 2021

The Death of Sir Henry Morgan and the paradox of history

MONTEGO BAY, November 2021 - As I continue the discussions, without any apology, about the squalid way the early history of Jamaica has been treated by the cast of all-white...

Shalman Scott Culture 15 November 2021

UNITED STATES | Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: the race riot of one night in June 1943

Bullet holes found in the wood surrounds of the NatWest Bank in Bamber Bridge, in Lancashire in the north of England, in the late 1980s led to the rediscovery of...

Alan Rice Culture 11 November 2021

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JAMAICA | Biden Pardons Pan Africanist Marcus Garvey, Righting a Century-Old Wrong

JAMAICA | Maroons Unite With African Diaspora to Establish Landmark Institute

CULTURE | PART 2 - "Church of England Asked to Get On with the Reparations Program"

JAMAICA | Enslaver John Gladstone held enslaved Africans in St. Elizabeth, Hanover, St. Mary and St. Thomas

Timbuktu manuscripts placed online are only a sliver of West Africa’s ancient archive

CARIBBEAN | CCJ Judge authors book on “The Law of the Sea in the Caribbean”

BRITAIN | Boris Johnson shifts his Migrant/Refugee problems to Rwanda under partnership with Paul Kagami

UNITED STATES | What is Thanksgiving to indigenous people? ¨A day of mourning¨

The Death of Sir Henry Morgan and the paradox of history

UNITED STATES | Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: the race riot of one night in June 1943

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