Arts & Entertainment News – Caribbean Life

Kranium

Music

Dancehall star Kranium drops ‘Daily Bread,’ ‘Girl Trip’

By Nelson A. King

Bronx Times

‘Don’t let anyone erase our history’ Bronx Borough President hosts Caribbean Heritage Month celebration

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Music

Valerie Simpson kicks off Black Music Month with live recording of Damien Sneed at The Town Hall

By Nelson A. King

NY: Brooklyn celebrates Pride

Pridefest ‘For All Of Us’ culminates month-long period of Big Apple revelry

By Vinette K. Pryce

Brooklyn

Juneteenth NYC festival celebrates freedom, resilience in East New York

By Tangerine Clarke

Reggae songstress Alaine returns with "Love Again," a soulful and uplifting ballad produced by Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley.

Music

Ghetto Youths International launches ‘No Better Riddim’

By Nelson A. King

ReelAbilities Film Festival co-founder Isaac Zablocki.

Movies

Annual film festival highlights international life stories on disability

By Milette Millington

The legendary Tony Award-winning actress and three-time Grammy nominee Melba Moore wows patrons at a Pre-Father’s Day Jazz & Cocktails celebration at the American Legion Hall in Canarsie, Brooklyn.

Brooklyn

Legendary Melba Moore wows VINCI Pre-Father’s Day Jazz and Cocktails event

By Nelson A. King

Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute presents 15 Well-Being Concerts.

Music

Carnegie Hall announces 2026–2027 ‘Well-Being Concerts’

By Nelson A. King

Jamaican reggae singer Mikey Spice will headline the 3rd Annual Festival on July 4.

Music

Veteran reggae singer Mikey Spice to headline All White Caribbean Jerk Fest

By Nelson A. King

Jamaican dancehall recording artist Masicka will perform at Brooklyn's Barclays Center as headliner of Reggae Fest on Aug. 15.

Music

Dancehall artist Masicka ‘Forever Reign’ to make Barclays Center debut

By Nelson A. King

Awarding-winning, Brooklyn-based Fashion Designer Roger Gary, left, with a model wearing a swimwear from his Spring, Summer Resort collection, recently shown on the runway of Summer Sizzle fashion show, in the British Virgin Islands.

Guyana

Brooklyn-based designer Roger Gary set for Guyana’s 2026 Origins Fashion Festival

By Tangerine Clarke

Dexta Daps.

Music

Dancehall star Dexta Daps bringing ‘Champagne Tour’ to Newark June 12

By Nelson A. King

Sean Paul recently attracted thousands of fans at his highly successful “Timeless Tour."

Music

Sean Paul’s ‘Timeless Tour’ demonstrates global demand for dancehall

By Nelson A. King

"Listen to Me" will be available on the PBS App and PBS.org.

‘Listen to Me’ premieres on Black Public Media’s AfroPoP

By Nelson A. King

Families get a taste of Haiti as Jonathan Pierre Lafleur leads a hands-on pikliz workshop.

Haiti

Taste of Haiti: Jonathan Pierre Lafleur brings Haitian culinary storytelling to NYC families

By Orlande Fleury

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The Van Cortlandt Park Stadium, which has been closed since 2021, has been recommended for demolition after a planning study conducted by NYC Parks.

‘There is no way to repair it’ NYC Parks seeks funding for Van Cortlandt Park Stadium demolition

Leah Livshitz, the daughter of murder victim Albert Itzkowitz, speaks at a press conference at Kissena Park on June 25. Itzkowitz was found dead with gunshot wounds to the neck and back along the shoreline of Kissena Lake.

Family of Kissena Park murder victim searching for answers a month after fatal shooting

MTA NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow shaking hands with police officer

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Tenants and housing advocates exploded in cheers as the city's Rent Guidelines Board announced that it would freeze the rent on one and two-year leases of rent stabilized apartments.

BREAKING: Rent Guidelines Board votes to freeze the rent, fulfilling Mamdani campaign promise