Lucid Dreams Amid the Pandemic: Muralist Amrisa Niranjan on her Latest Exhibit at Brooklyn’s Lips Cafe
written by D’Nisa Joseph In Brooklyn’s East Flatbush neighborhood conversations over coffee take place amid an art scene. Featured in the…
Brooklyn Artist Ayana Sheree Talks Music, Boss Babe Culture and Hustles Like Hell
written by Tiara Jade West Indians have excelled in the music industry for decades, creating new genres influenced by their roots…
Artist Afeefah Haniff Creates Hit Concept in ‘Colored Girls and Colored Walls’
written by Suhana Rampersad Art has long been expressed in various forms within the West Indian community. It often highlights our…
St. Vincent Artist Nadia Huggins on the Power of Art and Caribbean Heritage
written by Alya S. “In recent years, hiking into the crater of our local volcano La Soufriere ...standing in a space…
HERstory: 5 Badass French Caribbean Women Intellectuals Who Need to Be In History Books
written by guest contributor Yasmina VICTOR-BIHARY Growing up as a Caribbean woman, rarely were women who looked like me highlighted in…
From Harvard to India: Gaiutra Bahadur is Amplifying Indo-Caribbean Women’s Voices
Photo courtesy of Gaiutra Bahadur written by Tiara Jade Guyanese-American journalist and writer Gaiutra Bahadur brought two centuries of Indo-Caribbean…
Andrea Bharatt: Trinidad’s Slain Daughter
written by Tiara Jade To the forgotten, to the raped, the beaten and slain. For our mothers, sisters, wives and future…
Black HERstory Month: 5 Caribbean Women Who Paved the Way
Photo credit: Kathy Hutchins | Shutterstock.com written by Cassy Black history includes many women of West Indian heritage. The civil…
World Mourns Passing of Two Female Caribbean Icons
written by Shanida Carter Legendary American Actress Cicely Tyson of Nevisian descent and Calypso trailblazer Sandra DesVignes-Millington of Trinidad, known as…
UK Artist Joelle Charan Talks Acceptance, Music, and Culture
written by Alysa S. Meet Joelle Charan. Daughter, singer, artist, Indo-Caribbean, and European. Joelle is an up and coming artist of Surinamese…
Jason Jones: The LGBTQ+ Activist Breaking Ground in Trinidad and the United Kingdom
written by Tiara Jade Trinidadian LGBTQ+ activist Jason Jones has set a groundbreaking precedent for activists and LGBTQ+ members within the Caribbean…
Toronto’s Little Jamaica Amid Gentrification and COVID-19
written by Alya Gentrification. It’s the recent threat plaguing urban ethnic enclaves across North America. Dictionary.com defines gentrification as “the process…