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By Clifford Johnson Guest Writer It has been said many times that the Marvel movie “Black Panther” is an important landmark. I’m not referring to its deserved critical and box office success worldwide, the many awards it has won, or ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, February 25, 2019 (CMC) – Nine-time Calypso Monarch, Dr. Hollis Liverpool, aka “Mighty Chalkdust”, was not chosen as one of the finalists, named for the 2019 title, following the semi-finals in Skinner Park, in ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 23, 2019 (CMC) – One of the Caribbean’s foremost and successful playwrights, Ashton Cooke, died, mysteriously, yesterday. Born in Kingston, the 61-year-old cultural practitioner and member of the Board of Commissioners of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission ...

By Henry Navarro Delgado Guest Writer One knows that something is touching a nerve in North American culture when a foreign luxury car company wants a piece of the pie. The movie, Black Panther, is that type of archetypical popular culture ...

By Nancy Kang Guest Writer In Mules and Men (1935), anthropologist, creative writer and Harlem Renaissance upstart Zora Neale Hurston relays the evocative folktale “Why the Sister in Black Works Hardest.” Fatigued after the work of Creation, God casts a massive ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 19, 2019 (CMC) – Culture Minister, Olivia Grange, says a digital Reggae Film Archive will be established, in an effort to preserve the island’s cultural heritage and reggae history on film. Grange made the announcement at the ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, February 19, 2019 (CMC) – The Eastern Caribbean Collective Organisation for Music Rights (ECCO) Inc. is concerned that some 90 percent of the money it collects in royalties, here, goes to societies, overseas. ECCO, an association of ...

By Kirk Moss Guest Writer TORONTO, Ontario, Tuesday, February 19, 2019 — The Founder of the #MeToo Movement, Tarana Burke — who knows the pain and agony of violence — humbly accepted the 2019 Social Impact Award for her courageous, ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, February 14, 2019 (CMC) – Police are warning party-goers that they could face criminal charges, if they continue to follow, the lyrics of Grenadian singer, Hollis “Mr Killa” Mapp, to “Run With It”. Mapp’s ...

By A. D. McKenzie Contributing Writer BERLIN, Germany, February 14, 2019 (IPS) — A documentary about a Cuban family facing an uncertain future had its world premiere February 12 at the Berlin International Film Festival, one of the world’s most ...