On February 25, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Many students from African and Caribbean nations were trapped in Ukraine, due to the suddenness of the invasion. Here, some Jamaicans share their accounts.
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June 25, 2021
EMPIRE WINDRUSH: BOUND FOR THE MOTHER COUNTRY WHERE THE MOTHER DOESN’T WANT OR LOVE YOU
All of the passengers who boarded the Empire Windrush were British.
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June 25, 2021
EMPIRE WINDRUSH, CLEM ATTLEE’S RESPONSE TO MP
Colonisation in reverse – England owed them and still owes their descendants, better.
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March 6, 2021
WALTER RODNEY
All of the countries named as “underdeveloped” in the world are exploited by others; and the underdevelopment with which the world is now preoccupied is a product of capitalist, imperialist and colonialist exploitation.
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March 6, 2021
STACEY MCKENZIE
“I’m Jamaican, you know we always have 10 jobs. We are go-getters. We just want to do everything under the sun.”
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February 27, 2021
VERONICA CAMPBELL-BROWN
Competing at the 2000 Summer Olympics, the eighteen year old won her first Olympic medal, claiming silver in the 4×100 relay.
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February 26, 2021
OLIVE MORRIS
In 1977 Morris returned from China, completed her degree and returned to her home-community in Brixton. In Brixton, Morris became a founding member of the Organisation for Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD), 1978-82, and edited the organization’s magazine FOWAD!
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February 24, 2021
GIL SCOTT-HERON
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Brother
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October 12, 2020
COURTTIA NEWLAND
They are still treating us like “other,” they are not treating us like we are part of the fabric of the society, they are still treating us like an anomaly.
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October 9, 2020
BRITAIN’S INVOLVEMENT WITH NEW WORLD SLAVERY & THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: BRITISH LIBRARY
Many of the enslaved Africans were branded with the initials ‘DY’, standing for Duke of York. They were shipped to Barbados and other Caribbean islands to work on the new sugar plantations, as well as further north to England’s American colonies.