Milette Millington, Author at Caribbean Life

Musician, disability advocate, author and businesswoman Lachi, who was born legally blind.

Books

Lachi’s new book champions disability culture

By Milette Millington

Composer, pianist, bandleader, six-time GRAMMY winner, and two-time Latin GRAMMY winner Arturo O’Farrill playing the organ during a performance at Bryant Park on Sept 13, 2024.

Jazz at El Museo

By Milette Millington

Spine surgeon and singer of Haitian heritage Dr. Elvis Francois.

Music

Surgeon-musician Dr. Elvis Francois to release new EP ‘Realignment’

By Milette Millington

Curators Heather Simms and Patrice Johnson Chevannes standing next to each other on stage at the Billie Holiday Theater for the celebration on Dec. 13, 2025.

Billie Holiday Theater hosts inaugural Caribbean Theater Festival

By Milette Millington

Current members and alumni of the BSU/AHCCC, along with faculty, staff, and the Sisters of Saint Joseph (CSJ), gather in front of the original convent — once home to the CSJ educators who led TMLA for decades — during the May 2025 TMLA Black Student Union / African Heritage and Caribbean Culture Club five-year anniversary celebration.

Jamaica

From classrooms to community: NYC teens lead Hurricane Melissa relief for Jamaica

By Milette Millington

The May 2025 TMLA Black Student Union/African Heritage and Caribbean Culture Club's 5-year anniversary celebration.

Jamaica

Local NYC high school students mobilize support for Hurricane Melissa recovery in Jamaica

By Milette Millington

A group of volunteers standing in a room at the Brooklyn-based organization Neighbors Together, which is a soup kitchen, social service hub, and community advocacy center.

News

Local organizations collaborate to fight food insecurity in NYC

By Milette Millington

Guyanese-born US military veteran Shellone Grant has been a Zumba dance instructor for 12 years.

Guyana

Kindness in motion: Healing through dance

By Milette Millington

Alice and Tati face off. Alice is balancing on her short crutches, legs bent and folded under herself, tops of her toes grazing the floor. They peer at each other with curiosity and intensity.

Art in Motion

By Milette Millington

A group of attendees, at booths getting ready for the 8th Annual Trina Williams Far Rockaway Breast Cancer and Domestic Violence Awareness Walk, sponsored by various local organizations, including The Campaign Against Hunger (TCAH).

News

Walking for Trina: Far Rockaway honors beloved educator in Annual Awareness March

By Milette Millington

Members of the group, the Doo Wop Project. From left, Santino "Sonny" Paladino (Musical Director), Charl Brown, Dominic Nolfi, Russell Fischer, John Michael Dias, and Dwayne Cooper.

Music

Keeping Doo-Wop alive: Musical group celebrates new album release

By Milette Millington

Cameroon native Yolande Boyom, who created the play/upcoming film “The Road to Freedom,” to bring awareness to human trafficking.

From Cameroon to the stage: Playwright’s debut tackles human trafficking

By Milette Millington

Screen grab of Howard W. French, professor of journalism at Columbia University , in conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and fellow author, about his new book, The Second Emancipation (2025).

Books

NY journalism professor discusses his book on unknown Black History in Brooklyn

By Milette Millington

Self-portrait of Goodwood, Tobago native Shurla Alleyne Tyler, who has lived in Brooklyn for more than a decade.

Trinidad & Tobago

Brooklyn neighbor spreads hope through essential giving

By Milette Millington

Screenshot of Ramona Grey-Harris, daughter of Sarah Edwards and niece of Millicent and Lucille Edwards. The three sisters started Edward Sisters Realty Association (ESRA), now known as ESRA Realty LLC, in 1925.

Caribbean

Guyanese family celebrates 100th Anniversary in local business

By Milette Millington

Shoshanna Weinberger, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in Montclair, NJ, now lives in Newark, NJ.

Jamaica

Caribbean American artist brings fresh vision to NYC Gallery exhibition

By Milette Millington

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