Black History Month News – Caribbean Life

Professor Simanique Moody of Brooklyn College lights the Mishumaa Saba Candles during a pre-Kwanzaa commemoration in partnership with Marine Park Alliance and Brooklyn College, last Saturday at Carmine Carro Community Center in Brooklyn.

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Black History Month 2026 commemorates a century of celebration

By Tangerine Clarke

Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson.

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Bronx Borough Prez celebrates Black History Month

By Nelson A. King

Brooklyn Canarsie Lions and participants at the Second Annual Black History Month Celebration.

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Brooklyn Canarsie Lions celebrate Black History Month

By Nelson A. King

Sunday School Superintendent Jamaican Sis. Gail Murray leads Sunday School Students with a Black History Moment.

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Massive celebration of Black History Month on Heritage Sunday at FSUMC

By Nelson A. King

The Reverend Dr. Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones, a priest at Trinity Church in New York City, delivers a sermon on Absalom Jones’s legacy and the collective responsibility to fight for justice.

Black History Month

A Legacy of Faith: Celebrating the First Black Episcopal Priest

By Nelson A. King

Kendra J. Bostock, founder and director of STooPS, performing at Black Future Festival 2024.

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Brooklyn Children’s Museum hosts Black Future Festival: Week-long celebration of Black History

By Nelson A. King

Simone Espinet is the business development manager at Henricksen’s Manhattan office furniture store.

Trinidad & Tobago

Local business honors contributions of Black community

By Milette Millington

Honorees Elizabeth Mitchell, principal 27Q064 Queens; Tangerine Clarke, Caribbean Life contributor; Dr. Veronica Wiltshire, moderator; and Dr. Dhanpaul Narine, founder of the Queens Book Fair & Literary Festival, Inc., after plaques were presented on behalf of the organization., during a Black History presentation, at the Queens Library Richmond Hill Branch, on Feb. 8.

Grenada

Queens Book Fair celebrates Black History at 7th educational initiative, honors two for exceptional contributions

By Tangerine Clarke

Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn.

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Brooklyn Dems celebrate Black History Month

By Nelson A. King

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Alvin Aileys Revelations.

Ailey Dance Theater reaches across America for Black History Month

By Nelson A. King

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Brooklyn Paper

Brooklyn celebrates Black History Month with events honoring culture and history

Vincentian entrepreneur Dr. Jacqueline James-Lyttle.

Belize

Vincentian named among top 20 women entrepreneurs worldwide to look out for in 2025

By Nelson A. King

Guyanese-born Dr. Terrence Blackman.

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Guyanese-born distinguished professor Dr. Terrence Richard Blackman

By Nelson A. King

Dr. Marguerite Thompson, right, with granddaughters Patrice Eleah, left, front, and Marguerite Allen, back, and Pastor the Rev. Roger Jackson during Dr. Thompson's 94th Birthday celebration at FSUMC on Oct. 6, 2024.

Africa

Black History Month Celebration: Dr. Marguerite Thompson, a renaissance woman

By Nelson A. King

An educator from The Federation of Black Cowboys shows a cowboy-to-be how to ride on horseback.

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Battery Park City Authority celebrates Juneteenth

By Nelson A. King

Abena Amory sings Bob Marley's "One Love.”

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FSUMC celebrates grand Black History Month

By Nelson A. King

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