The 30th annual Twin Cities Carifest kicks off with music on Friday, July 21, followed by a full day of action on Saturday, July 22.
Caribbean
Posted inFeatured, National, News
Haiti digs out from another massive earthquake
The devastation, of course, comes only five weeks after gunmen burst into Haiti’s presidential palace and assassinated President Jovenel Moïse.
Posted inGo Green, News
Why Jamaica is leading the climate revolution
Even before the British billionaire invested US$1 billion in making the region ‘climate-smart,’ Jamaica, Barbados and Dominica were pioneering a renewable energy boom in the Caribbean.
Posted inArts + Culture
Meet Haiti’s founding father, whose Black revolution was too radical for Thomas Jefferson
Crowds cheered as local lawmakers on August 18 unveiled a street sign showing that Rogers Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn would now be called Jean-Jacques Dessalines Boulevard, after a Haitian slave turned revolutionary general. When Dessalines declared Haiti’s independence from France in 1804 after a 13-year slave uprising and civil war, he became […]