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American-Caribbean history moment: Teenage George Washington in Barbados
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American-Caribbean history moment: Teenage George Washington in Barbados

Did you know that the father of the United States of America went to Barbados as a teenager as moral support for his ailing half-brother? George Washington visited Barbados in…
Posted by John McCarthy June 10, 2025
Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN
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Descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN

NEW YORK (AP) — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guyana.…
Posted by John McCarthy April 20, 2025
France forced Haiti to pay for independence. 200 years later, should there be restitution?
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France forced Haiti to pay for independence. 200 years later, should there be restitution?

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Miami Herald) — Two centuries ago this month, France pulled off one of history’s greatest armed extortions: After the first three leaders of a newly freed Haiti refused to…
Posted by John McCarthy April 19, 2025
Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds
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Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds

LONDON (TG) — British people are widely ignorant of the scale and legacy of Britain’s involvement in slavery and colonialism, a survey has found, with the vast majority unaware how many people…
Posted by John McCarthy March 26, 2025
Daughter of 1st Black Marine says it’s ‘unbelievable’ to see ‘my dad caught up in DEI’
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Daughter of 1st Black Marine says it’s ‘unbelievable’ to see ‘my dad caught up in DEI’

OKLAHOMA CITY — Alfreda Masters, the daughter of the first enlisted Black man to serve in the Marine Corps, told ABC News she finds it "unbelievable" that the webpage honoring…
Posted by John McCarthy March 23, 2025
Dismissed as fakes for a century, enigmatic Puerto Rican stones could rewrite history
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Dismissed as fakes for a century, enigmatic Puerto Rican stones could rewrite history

SAN JUAN — For more than a century, the fist-sized rocks etched with enigmatic patterns were ignored by academics and shunned by cultural power brokers. Discovered in Puerto Rico in…
Posted by John McCarthy March 19, 2025
Stabilizing the historic Cinnamon Bay Danish warehouse
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Stabilizing the historic Cinnamon Bay Danish warehouse

CRUZ BAY — Virgin Islands National Park in partnership with the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC) is in the process of stabilizing the Cinnamon Bay Danish Warehouse…
Posted by John McCarthy March 16, 2025
The 44 Percent: Doechii, Flo Rida shopping plaza, Black businesses in South Florida
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The 44 Percent: Doechii, Flo Rida shopping plaza, Black businesses in South Florida

The entire discourse around Doechii is backward. We should be talking about how she’s in rare air becoming only the third woman to win the Grammy for hip-hip album of…
Posted by John McCarthy March 13, 2025
Once a site of horror, a tiny Caribbean island could become a Garifuna shrine
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Once a site of horror, a tiny Caribbean island could become a Garifuna shrine

KINGSTOWN — Arriving in Baliceaux, it is hard to imagine that this private island in St Vincent and the Grenadines was once the site of one of history’s worst genocides perpetrated by…
Posted by John McCarthy March 7, 2025
Frankétienne, considered one of Haiti’s most important and prolific writers, dies at 88
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Frankétienne, considered one of Haiti’s most important and prolific writers, dies at 88

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Frankétienne, a renowned writer, painter, actor and musician known as the “father of Haitian letters” has died. He was 88. Born Jean-Pierre Basilic Dantor Franck Étienne d’Argent…
Posted by John McCarthy February 22, 2025

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