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50 | 50 The Road to Independence: Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago
Lecture & discussion presented by the FIU Libraries' Special Collections department and the Digital Library of the Caribbean: 50 | 50 The Road to Independence: Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, to commemorate their 50th anniversary of Independence. Event will be held on February 28th, 2012 at 5.30pm in Green Library 220. ...
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Portage Library to celebrate Black History Month with Film Series
...hite audiences in the 1940s. Hail, Hail Rock and Roll will be shown on Feb. 10 and tells the story of Chuck Berry, an architect of Rock and Roll in the 1950s. A film about Jimi Hendrix will be shown on Feb. 17. One of rock’s first documentaries, this film tells the life story of Jimi Hendrix and shows how the electric guitar was never the same once he emerged in the 1960s. Time Will Tell will be...
Tags: black history month, portage lake district library, documentaries on black musicians, anthony daniel, yearbook the 1960s
Bad Friday– Movie Screening @ the Library
On Tuesday, Feb. 14th Bad Friday will be screened in the Library muti-media room as part of the Black History Month celebration at Fairfield University. Bad Friday focuses on a community of Rastafarians in western Jamaica who annually commemorate the 1963 … Continue reading →...
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2/17/2012 Results
...d as a king). Red Box: KIMBERLY ($450 left)- Two-night trip to the La Jolla Shores Hotel in San Diego ($2,382) Green Box: ADRIANNE ($450 left)- Michael C. Fina Eternity diamond necklace ($2K) Big Box: ADRIANNE ($100 left)- Home office ($2,577) THE BIG RISK (CURTAIN #1): Kimberly (Donkey cuckoo clock) Matthew's Fast Deal Decision (the mystery prize's worth at least $300): CURTAIN #2 ($1K)- Home ent...
Peckham Public Meeting: Stop Deportations In Our Community!
...ary 3-5pm Peckham Library, 2nd Floor We’re calling a public meeting to: Hear from people who have been in detention and successfully stopped their deportationss Discuss strategies to stop deportation Nearest Train Station: Peckham Rye Bus Stop: Peckham Library (12, 36, 63, 76, 171, 343, 345) Mass deportations from the UK happen almost every week. The UK Border Agency charters flights to dep...
Tags: africa, europe, uk politics, world, afghanistan, fortress europe
Poet highlight: Claude McKay
...sm. But through this technique, McKay and others broadened English and moved it away from being a self-constricting language and expanded the artful possibilities within it. I'm not always enamored by his rhymes, but he was consistently working with some wonderful images and ideas. One of my favorite quotes of his is "If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anythi...
YouTube Mix for Jackie Mittoo
...revette, and Lester Sterling, as well as the Cavaliers' Lloyd Knibb and Johnny Moore. Dubbing themselves the Skatalites, they were to become the quintessential ska band of the period; also featuring the legendary trombonist Don Drummond, the group lasted just 14 months -- from June 1964 to August 1965 -- but their influence on music worldwide remains incalculable. After the Skatalites split, Mitto...
Is your love Rocksteady?
...is ultra-smooth, melancholy vocals (hey, they don't call him the Lonely Lover for nothing) impossible to resist. Combined with a wee obsession with old school librarian gear - library cards and rubber stamps in particular (check out my kick-ass vintage stamp stand!) - it only made sense to bring all these passions together in time for February 14th. Each card is hand-stamped with a custom made rub...
New York City Rare Bird Alert
... and succesfully released in Turtle Cove, the grateful bird finding the ocean much more to its liking. Another DOVEKIE had been seen earlier that day off Culloden Point on Montauk's north shore. Moderate numbers of RAZORBILLS were also noted. Seven RED-NECKED GREBES were also off Culloden Point, and three separate ICELAND GULLS were along the beach adjacent to the Montauk Harbor Inlet last weekend...
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Get Into: Freddy Hefner – GoodLuck
...with little NYC sprinkles on top! Freddy delivered her first EP, GOODLUCK, last year and I’m pretty infatuated with it, even though I just heard it an hour ago. The 7-track collection boasts tons of production from K. Roosevelt (Jhene Aiko, Dom Kennedy), but I really enjoy Freddy’s smooth voice and fearless rap lyrics. The EP is just fun and a great addition to your music library. Listen to ...
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Who Reads Bender's Blog?...A Submission....AW
...a and plenty of not-so-major ones, most of the states from our neighbour to the South, and…. Jamaica, Brasil, Mexico, Netherlands, Australia, Argentina, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, and Kenya. Who's Reading, Government: The County of Oxford, Public Works and Government Services Canada, Correctional Services Canada, Ehealth Ontario, Canadian House of Commons, Dept....
SO FUCKING TIRED
...ng day today. For some reason, after going to bed at some stupidly late hour last night, I woke up on my own at half-past-eight. My alarm was set for nine. So I farted around for a while, and the next thing I know, whoops, I'm late to head to Lucia's party. Long story short, I was 45 minutes late to rendezvous, but as I got there before Lucia, everything was okay. We had hot pot for lunch, during ...
Tags: life cool story bro, friends chillin', hockey new york rangers
The Fight Against MBTA Service Cuts and Fare Hikes Gets Ugly
... the entire BPL sidewalk across from Copley by 5pm. More than two months into this battle, groups like On The Move and Transportation for Massachusetts were steaming, and carried out an emotional hour-long chorus of hoots and hollers. As the hearing time approached, delegates from more than 50 community groups filed into the BPL, where they quickly jammed the basement ...
Tags: mbta, occupy boston, occupyboston, mayor menino, service cuts, tru
News & Notes
...Photo (cc) ChicagoGeek → Have Americans Given Up On McMansions? After many years of dramatically increasing home size in America – from an average of 983 square feet in the 1950s up to 2300 square feet in the 2000s, despite declining household sizes – the trend appears finally to be going in the other direction. The real estate research firm Trulia found in 2010, for example, that the med...
Tags: news notes, budget, denver, economy, fare hikes, housing
Lovey
...ok the extra bits in a baggie for my solo car ride later. mmmmm. Sent this to my Lil Bro. We cool like that. My Hubs gave me my card in this groovy envelope. Han got luvvy pancakes too for her lunch. Hope she knows how cool he is. Super Daddy. Made this today on www.someecards.com only because I think I'm funny. Sent this to Jdot. I know some of you will see these things twice, but I really ...
City Hall rally today protesting the epidemic of school closings and DOE's broken promises to Jamaica HS
... communities -- who cherish their schools even as they are struggling as a result of budget cuts, increased class sizes, overcrowding and the elimination of any support from DOE.There is also a huge amount of hypocrisy behind all this. I don’t understand how anyone can claim they care about teacher quality and then impose a quota that demands that 50% of all teachers be fired from a struggli...
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Roots Rockers and Reality – Whos' Getting Paid and Who Got Played
.... Ranking Trevor is now focused on recording some “fresh songs”. His latest songs are Producer Rob Me, Dem Cyaan Get Me Out and Recession. We also heard this week a few bits of hillarity like Shabada saying hes’ going to drain out Ghetto Badman like Bounty Killa; and that Vybz Kartel is getting his nyash beaten literally in lock up. yes there’s always news from the home of Reggae and nex...
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Caribbean: Talking to Peter James Hudson of The Public Archive
...from the United Nations on the activities and behavior of MINUSTAH. For the Caribbean, my favorite blog is Norman Girvan’s Caribbean Political Economy. I was always a fan of Girvan’s writing on the political economy of development and underdevelopment in the Caribbean, and the impact and role that transnational corporations have had on Caribbean political sovereignty and economic integrity. G...
Past Week at Twitter.com/Disquiet
... hopefully accompanied by a rousing cheer. # “Attention library patrons, the Internet is back up.” # Still thinks IMAP is magical. # Recommended. RT @NodeBeat: NodeBeat for Android now free on Please help us by clicking the ‘like’ button on the page. # Home pages for the first 4 Disquiet Junto projects: # Tab I had open to @techdirt for hours suddenly launched a “rich” ad wit...
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This Day, February 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
...Liebermann you want to see more. 1940: The first ghetto was set up by the Nazis in Lodz. The idea was to bring in all Jews from the surrounding areas in order to make it easier to proceed with the "Final Solution." By the first of May, 160,000 Jews would have been herded into the Ghetto. 1940: Birthdate of Ted Koppel, ABC newsman and host of Nightline. Koppel was born in England where his parents ...