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“Cocoa Tea” is a popular Caribbean drink, but music fans know it’s also the name of one of reggae’s sweetest
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Violence can and does occur anywhere at any time to anyone. While our current mass shooting epidemic has thrust this
Read moreReggae icon Max Romeo: “How do you fight the devil with a lawyer?”
In a career spanning fifty-five years, legendary reggae star Max Romeo’s many hit songs have brought joy to millions of
Read moreJulius Jones’s Hail Mary to escape a 21st-Century-style lynching
Recently, by filing a petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States, Julius Jones, a black man condemned
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Black Uhuru’s Duckie Simpson: ‘I’m a Nine-Star General Now’
After watching legendary reggae band Black Uhuru perform in September of 2016, I wrote, “Duckie Simpson is an ageless, still
Read moreSly Dunbar: 10 minutes with the superstar drummer
Sly Dunbar is one of the most innovative and influential drummers of all time. Individually and together with his “riddim
Read moreWhy Twitter brings out my worst self (and perhaps yours)
As a full-time freelance writer — having transitioned from law practice at midlife, accursed with all the selfish, self-doubting sensibilities that kind
Read moreKeith Tharpe and the Death Penalty’s Racist Roots
Recently, the appalling spectacle of a black man condemned by a Georgia jury, a jury that included a racist bigot,
Read moreSupreme Court screw-up sullies U.S. Constitution
Giving a speech at Georgetown University, late Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., said: “[T]he Constitution is a sublime oration on
Read moreScientist vs. Cooper, The Interview: Round 2
Honoring the 78th birthday of the late dub music pioneer Osbourne “King Tubby” Ruddock (1941-1989), Jamaica’s leading daily newspaper the
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