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.
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October 8, 2020
MAXI PRIEST
Maxi Priest was born Max Alfred Elliott in Lewisham, London on 10 June 1961.
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September 17, 2020
WAYNE WONDER
Wonder played an important role in the success of Buju Banton, writing Banton’s early hits “Murderer,” “Deportee,” and “Boom Bye Bye”; recording a duet (“Bonafide Love [Movie Star]”); and touring the world together.
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September 17, 2020
BURNING SPEAR
You develop your mind so that it can do the work of separation. Otherwise, you won’t go nowhere. You think you’re going forward, but you’re going backward.
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September 17, 2020
JOHN HOLT
Holt was prolific for the next decade. He released more than 40 albums in all, and although his last was in 1993, he remained a popular live artist whose final appearance was in August at the One Love festival in Milton Keynes, where he was taken ill.
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September 17, 2020
GARNETT SILK
“He lives on and we all in the music industry need to do more to make the younger generation know about the amazing works of Garnet Silk, his music…”
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September 11, 2020
PETER TOSH
“Don’t care where you come from/As long as you’re a black man, you’re an African.”
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September 2, 2020
Reggae Singer Toots Hibbert In Medically-Induced Coma
It was less than a week ago that the prolific hitmaker, who has been in the business for close to six decades, released his latest album, Got To Be Tough, on the Trojan Jamaica label.
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September 1, 2020
DR HAROLD MOODY: GOOGLE DOODLE
In 1931, Harold Moody founded the League of Coloured Peoples.