Arts & Entertainment News – Page 9 of 388 – Caribbean Life

Brooklyn Canarsie Lions Club Member Kamla Millwood in full masquerade costume hits the dance floor.

Dance

Success behind the mask

By Nelson A. King

Celebrated Jamaican footballer player and cultural figure Allan 'Skill' Cole (R) sharing lens time with Louis Grant (Irie Jam Radio, NY) and Niambe McIntosh, daughter of reggae icon Peter Tosh, at the annual Peter Tosh Symposium in Kingston, Jamaica on Oct. 16, 2024.

Jamaica

NY radio program remembers Jamaican folk hero Allan’ Skill’ Cole

By Nelson A. King

Dennery segment takes center stage at Lucian Carnival 2026 launch in Miami.

St Lucia

Lucian Carnival 2026 launches in Miami

By Nelson A. King

Jamaican-born reggae recording singer Elihu Morris.

Music

‘Prince of Lovers Rock’ Elihu Morris breaks silence

By Nelson A. King

A poster highlighting Caribbean Cinema at the ADIFF NYC 2025.

Movies

Caribbean stories to take center stage at ADIFF 2025

By Nelson A. King

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

President Barack Obama after he announced live on television the death of Osama bin Laden, from the East Room of the White House in Washington May 1, 2011.

’44’ The musical salute to President Barack Obama

By Vinette K. Pryce

Book cover of “Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival” by Maria Pinto.

Books

On science, the ancestors, and digging in the dirt

By Terri Schlichenmeyer

Classic Caribbean Brown Stew Oxtail recipe.

Caribbean recipes

Classic Caribbean Brown Stew Oxtail

By Chris De La Rosa

From left, Alpha School of Music’s Joshua Chamberlain, BMCC Professor Jon De Lucia, Evad Campbell, Patricia “Miss Pat” Chin, Gay Magnus, Margaret Little Wilson, Eugenia Oi Yan Yau, Sanjay Ramdath and Consulate General of Jamaica’s Christopher Benjamin.

Music

BMCC music students get ‘masterclass’ in Jamaican Dancehall music

By Nelson A. King

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

Models assembly after strutting their outfits.

Fashion

CANA-BMW nurses strut their stuff

By Nelson A. King

Singer Mikey Spice was in fine form as he belts out his popular song 'Practice What You Preach.'

Music

Music & Life

By Nelson A. King

Book cover of “Meyer Levin: Where Leaders Grow.”

Books

Meyer Levin School for the Performing Arts launches ‘Meyer Levin: Where Leaders Grow’

By Nelson A. King

Jamaican Dancehall singer Masicka.

Music

Dancehall singer Masicka drops ‘Keys’

By Nelson A. King

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