There are many ways to chart one’s heritage. For most that means recording the stories of...
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by Eva Wilson | Oct 21, 2018 | Roots & Culture | 0 |
Caribbean heritage is shared in a multitude of ways. Through food, folklore, dress, language but...
Read Moreby Zaake De Coninck | Oct 7, 2018 | Roots & Culture | 0 |
You’ve heard the family stories a thousand times over. You enjoy their telling, the way they...
Read MoreWhen Social Media and Studies Collide
by Jihan Ramroop | Sep 16, 2018 | Roots & Culture | 0 |
There is a popular saying in West Indian households, “No one can tek yuh education.” I had never...
Read MoreLife, Unplugged.
by Onicia Muller | Jun 24, 2018 | Roots & Culture | 0 |
Back When the Internet Lived in a Box _________ I‘m a special type of Millennial. I was born...
Read MoreShe Haffi Have It
by AlysiaSimone | Jan 30, 2018 | For the Culture, Reviews & Interviews | 2 |
Caribbean Culture Shines in Spike Lee’s Latest _________________ Brooklyn has been the...
Read MoreBlack History Month 2017
by AlysiaSimone | Feb 28, 2017 | Featured, For the Culture | 0 |
Growing up, black history month wasn’t a big deal to me. In elementary school teachers...
Read MoreThe Return of The Timehri Film Festival
by AlysiaSimone | Jan 19, 2017 | Roots & Culture | 0 |
Guyana. A small country nestled between the Atlantic Ocean, Venezula, Suriname and Brazil....
Read MoreAward winning Trini film TRAFFICKED comes to Brooklyn
by AlysiaSimone | Apr 20, 2016 | For the Culture | 1 |
Last year, while attending the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, my homie Chantal Miller of...
Read MoreRACA x CAFA = The Timehri Film Festival
by AlysiaSimone | Apr 19, 2016 | For the Culture | 0 |
A few years ago, while killing time on Facebook, I came across a post for a Caribbean film...
Read MoreWest Indian Word of the Week: Stush
by AlysiaSimone | Apr 6, 2016 | Roots & Culture, W.I. Word of the Week | 0 |
A few summers ago a friend and I were kickin’ it at this Brooklyn house party. It was at one...
Read MoreWest Indian Word of the Week: Mehkase
by AlysiaSimone | Nov 13, 2015 | W.I. Word of the Week | 0 |
Since childhood, I have been a dawdler. My parents always seemed to be a hurry. But me? Not so...
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