Arts & Entertainment News – Caribbean Life

The late reggae icon Bob Marley.

Haiti

‘Bob Marley: One Love’ captures 2025 Grammy Awards ‘Best Reggae Album’

By Nelson A. King

Maestro George Marriner Maull

Arts & Entertainment

The Discovery Orchestra to host special Black History Month concert

By Nelson A. King

Lee Scratch Perry with Reshma B.

Movies

New Reggae documentary premiering at Bronx Music Hall this weekend

By Milette Millington

Black History Month books for kids by various authors and illustrators.

Books

Black History Month: It’s not just for grown-pps

By Terri Schlichenmeyer

Vincentian entrepreneur Dr. Jacqueline James-Lyttle.

Belize

Vincentian named among top 20 women entrepreneurs worldwide to look out for in 2025

By Nelson A. King

Heart shaped chocolate is made at the Jacques Torres Chocolate Heaven store for Valentine's Day sales Feb. 13, 2008 in New York City.

Haiti

‘Would you be my Valentine’ – events to fill the heart with love, and enjoyment

By Tangerine Clarke

Vybez Cartel during HOT 97's "On The Reggae Tip" Live - Sept. 2, 2005 at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, New York, United States

Caribbean

Vybz Kartel

By Bert Wilkinson

Jamaican musician Buju Banton performs at the “I Am Legend” concert at Queen’s Park Savannah, in Port-of-Spain

Music

Buju Banton, Beres Hammond to share stage in Best of the Best Music Fest

By Nelson A. King

First female Dancehall DJ, Sister Nancy.

Caribbean

Sister Nancy to perform ‘Mystery Dance’ in NYC

By Nelson A. King

Pineapple Rum Jerk Wings Recipe.

Food

Pineapple Rum Jerk Wings

By Chris De La Rosa

Michelle Adams (left), who discussed her debut book, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (MacMillan, 2025), in an in-person and virtual conversation hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History (BPL-CBH) on Jan. 13.

Books

50 years ago: Why integrating Detroit schools was such a struggle

By Milette Millington

Black history month.

Celebrating Black History Month under the theme ‘African American and Labor’

By Tangerine Clarke

The late reggae icon Bob Marley.

Haiti

Aloha! Bob Marley at 80 — Valentine and Presidents Day in paradise

By Vinette K. Pryce

Book cover of "In Open Contempt" by Irvin Weathersby Jr.

Books

The statuary you see daily may hold secrets

By Terri Schlichenmeyer

Renee Hastick-Motes, new CEO of Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center.

Belize

Renee Hastick-Motes named new CEO of Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center

By Nelson A. King

Jamaican-born reggae artist Minna LaFortune.

Haiti

Minna LaFortune drops ‘The Message’

By Nelson A. King

More from Around NYC

DSC_2422 Seton Park Adult Fitness Area (2)

Parks Dept. officially opens new skate park and fitness area at Seton Park

stabbed

Senior woman stabbed multiple times during home invasion in her Flushing apartment: NYPD

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) speaks during his Senate Environment and Public Works confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on January 16, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Trump adds cabinet members from LI, nominees advance

Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani

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