Jamaica, U.S.A.: Juneteenth
Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.
Jamaican Geoffrey Philp remembers Juneteenth, “the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.” ...
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June 23, 2008
Barbados: Caribbean Football Falters
Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.
Living in Barbados comments on the fortunes of regional football teams, as qualification matches begin for World Cup 2010. ...
go to article »June 13, 2008
The Audacity of Obama’s Hope
Aggregated from: Dominica Weekly
This article was published in Dominica Sun Newspaper. Mon, 09 Jun 2008. For the first time in history the president of the United States of America could be a black man. After a bruising primaries campaign, last week Tuesday night Barack Hussein Obama won the number of delegates he required to be...
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Reggae and the Obama moment, Christopher Lydon
Aggregated from: openDemocracy - USA
Bob Marley and Barack Obama are the absent heroes of the 8th annual Calabash literary festival in Jamaica: Marley, because his music and poetry incarnate the living “reggae aesthetic” (with the pan-African, Judaeo-Christian, sexual, political and celebratory overtones which the poet and Calabash...
go to article »May 13, 2008
Jamaica, USA: White House Dash
Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.
Kadene Porter at Jamaica's Abeng News Magazine comments on the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination: “In her Darwininan dash for the White House, she (Clinton) may just plan to kick, claw, bite or scratch her way to victory.” ...
go to article »April 17, 2008
Jamaica, Guyana, U.S.A.: Virginia Tech Remembered
Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.
Jamaican Geoffrey Philp links to Guyanese poet Fred D’Aguiar's poem for Virginia Tech on the one-year anniversary of the shootings. ...
go to article »April 10, 2008
Jamaica: Singing Obama's Praises
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YardFlex.com reports that a popular Jamaican singer has composed a song honouring Barack Obama. ...
go to article »April 7, 2008
Caribbean, Latin Music Videos for Obama
World citizens have created a string of campaign songs in support of American presidential candidate Barack Obama that are so good his campaign ought to compile them and sell them on an album.
April 6, 2008
Jamaica, U.S.A.: MLK 40 years Later
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Jamaican blog Abeng News Magazine honours Martin Luther King by sharing people's recollections of April 4, 1968, while Something Extra remembers when Dr. King visited Jamaica. ...
go to article »April 5, 2008
Brazil,
China,
Denmark,
Egypt,
France,
Indonesia,
Iraq,
Jamaica,
Japan,
Kenya,
Netherlands,
Palestine,
South Africa,
Switzerland,
Tanzania,
Trinidad & Tobago,
United Kingdom
China,
Denmark,
Egypt,
France,
Indonesia,
Iraq,
Jamaica,
Japan,
Kenya,
Netherlands,
Palestine,
South Africa,
Switzerland,
Tanzania,
Trinidad & Tobago,
United Kingdom
The Global movement supporting Obama is growing
Aggregated from: The World Wants Obama
All around the world an energetic and unprecedented movement is growing in support of Senator Obama's candidacy to be the 44th US President. Some examples of the worldwide movement include: In Trinidad, calypso legend The Mighty Sparrow sings that America could "regain worldwide respect with Obama...
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