Tag: BLM
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Of African Descent: Decolonisation
PART 2 – (listen to Part 1 here) Nanny of the Maroons was a legendary warrior and is one of Jamaica’s national heroes. She led a community of formerly enslaved Africans in the early 18th century and fought a guerrilla war over the course of a decade against British authorities who had colonised Jamaica. In […]
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Of African Descent: Diaspora
THIS IS PART 1 OF A TWO-PART SERIES… (click here for part 2) I recently took a DNA test. While I have always been extremely proud of my Jamaican heritage, there is a whole other part of my history that was stolen from me and erased. I am in diaspora; part of a scattered population […]
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Money Talks
In the midst of a wave of Black Lives Matter protests that swept the globe in 2020, last August marked the second annual Black Pound Day; its aim being to encourage support from people to buy from Black-owned companies (both local to them and online).The power of black and other ethnic consumers represents a significant […]
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