Category - Caribbean Diaspora and the Civil Rights Movement

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Look Who’s Coming to Dinner: The Caribbean Diaspora

Look Who’s Coming to Dinner: The Caribbean Diaspora Lester C. Facey, Ph.D. (25 April 2021) — Many would assume that with the title of this article, the author would be discussing many of the culinary cuisines of the Caribbean and hopefully your island’s main dish will be highlighted so that you can have bragging rights to your peers and associates.  My apologies, but I am sure that after you read what I have been observing over the last several years, you will find the love in your...

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John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Caribbean Diaspora

  John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Caribbean Diaspora (An essay) Ambassador Curtis A. Ward (18 July 2020) —There is a lot I could say about John Lewis, and volumes have already been written, and will be written, about his role as a civil rights icon and warrior. His life-long struggle for freedom from oppression, from his early years as a young man in the civil rights movement, up until his death as a US congressman, to effect changes in policies in the United States...