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By Dubb Master Chris Guest Writer I am privileged, each day, to have the ears of thousands of radio listeners in the tri-state area. As a senior radio personality at Irie Jam Radio, 93.5 FM, WVIP, it is part of ...

By Adam Gustafson Guest Writer Jazz seems to be experiencing a bit of a renaissance among movie directors – look no further than documentaries such as “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” which just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, ...

By Vershawn Ashanti Young Contributing Writer Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, which was nominated for the Academy’s Best Picture Award, this year, delivers more than a brilliantly entertaining story. Officially, BlacKkKlansman is about Ron Stallworth (John David Washington, son of actor Denzel Washington), the ...

By Cheryl Thompson Contributing Writer Renowned visual artist Mickalene Thomas has taken over the fifth-floor gallery space of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) with her show “Femmes Noires.” Working with curator Julie Crooks, it is the first time the ...

By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario, January 9, 2019 — On the fifteenth of this month, the undisputed leader of the civil rights movement in the United States of America, the incomparable Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, January 4, 2019 (CMC) – The National Drama Association of Trinidad and Tobago (NDATT), on Wednesday, confirmed that its President, Edwin Erminy Bayley, drowned at the Grande Riviere Beach, on Trinidad’s north coast, earlier ...

  Christopher Partridge Guest Writer When UNESCO announced that “the reggae music of Jamaica” had been added to its list of cultural products considered worthy of recognition, it was a reflection on the fact that reggae, which grew from its ...

SANYA, China December 13, 2018 — Kadijah Robinson, Jamaica’s representative at the 2018 Miss World pageant, finished in the top five of the 68th edition of the competition that was held in Sanya, China, last Saturday, December 8. 118 contestants, ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, December 5, 2018 (CMC) – The calypso fraternity is mourning the death of Fred Mitchell, the fourth calypsonian to have died within the past month. Mitchell, 83, better known as “Mighty Composer”, died at ...

MAURITIUS, November 29, 2018 (CMC) – Reggae music, the genre that originated in Jamaica, secured a coveted spot on the United Nations’ list of global cultural treasure, today. UNESCO, the world body’s cultural and scientific agency, added reggae to its ...