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Trinidad is redrawing its coat of arms to remove Columbus’ three famous ships
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Trinidad is redrawing its coat of arms to remove Columbus’ three famous ships

PORT OF SPAIN (AP) — Officials in Trinidad and Tobago are redrawing the island’s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to remove references to…
Posted by John McCarthy September 10, 2024
Trinidad and Tobago reckons with colonialism in a debate on statues, signs and monuments of its past
Posted inBlack History News Breaking News Caribbean News

Trinidad and Tobago reckons with colonialism in a debate on statues, signs and monuments of its past

PORT OF SPAIN (AP) — In a small auditorium in the seaside capital of Trinidad and Tobago, Christopher Columbus and other colonial-era figures came under scrutiny late Wednesday in a…
Posted by John McCarthy September 4, 2024
New Study Reveals USVI Was A Melting Pot … Before Christopher Columbus Arrived In 1493
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New Study Reveals USVI Was A Melting Pot … Before Christopher Columbus Arrived In 1493

SALT RIVER — When Christopher Columbus arrived at the present-day US Virgin Islands on his second voyage across the Atlantic in 1493, the islands were already inhabited — but how…
Posted by John McCarthy May 18, 2023
Taino Indians Are Alive and Well and Living In Puerto Rico … At Least Their Descendants … DNA Says
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Taino Indians Are Alive and Well and Living In Puerto Rico … At Least Their Descendants … DNA Says

SAN JUAN -- They were called the Taíno, and the Europeans who colonized their land took almost everything away from them. A half-century after Christopher Columbus set foot upon the…
Posted by John McCarthy February 20, 2018
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