#blackcaribbean — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #blackcaribbean, aggregated by home.social.
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Inna de Yard released in 2019 set in Jamaica
Very interestingly filmed.
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Sidney Poitier would have been 99 today.
Nancy Wilson would have been 89 today.
Charles Barkley is 63 today.
Rihanna is 38 today.
#blackwomen #bahamas #blackamerican #blackmovie #blackmusic #blacksports #barbados #guyana #africa #blackcaribbean #blackafrican #blackmastodon
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London to Jamaican parents, and her work explores topics related to British Jamaicans and how they negotiate racial, cultural and national identities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Levy/6
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@dampclay, Black Royalty, wrote:
Let’s start with a gentle reminder (I’m holding your hand and speaking slowly as I say this). The transatlantic slave trade
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#blackwomen #92percent #blackhistory #afrobrazilian #afrobrazillian #afrolatino #blackcaribbean #blackmastodon
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A Thousand Blows S02E01 released in 2025
A white man is receiving an award for his contribution to the empire and the Black protagonist wants to kill him.
And people flaunt their honors on LinkedIn.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21874900
#tv #blacktv #blackbritish #greattv #blackcaribbean #blackjamaican #blackmastodon
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Fire in Babylon released in 2010
"West Indies cricket team's rise to being the best in the world" and white commentators responded with hardly camouflaged racial stereotypes.
When Australians had done similarly previously, white commentators only complimented them.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1727790
#movie #blacksports #blackhistory #blackcaribbean #blackpeople #blacklivesmatter #blackindependence #blackmastodon
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Silent Twins: Without My Shadow released in 1994
Black Women twins are treated so incredibly badly that one twin commits suicide at 29.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313607
#movie #blackwomen #barbados #blackcaribbean #blackbritish #blackmastodon
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Mustapha Matura (17 December 1939 – 29 October 2019)
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackcaribbean #blackbritish #blackplaywrights #asian #britishasian #blackhistory #blackcreatives #blackmastodon
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The flag of Jamaica "is currently the only national flag that does not contain the colors red, white, or blue."
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KH shared:
"I love my borough, here's how Brixton looked between 1981-82."
[before gentrification]
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#blackhistory #blackbritish #blackcaribbean #blackafrican #blackmastodon
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Renee Cox (born October 16, 1960) is a Jamaican-American artist, photographer, lecturer, political activist and curator.
Background
Cox has "dedicated her career to deconstructing stereotypes and to reconfiguring the black woman's body, using her nude form as a subject."(1/24)
#blackwomen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackmastodon #blackcaribbean #blackartists #blackphotographers #blacklecturers #blactivists #blackcurators
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A white person wrote:
"I thought I should add my experiences with this so-called Windrush Generation’.
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I arrived in the [uk] in 1965 – an emigrant from Hungary, then Australia.
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#whitepeople #blackpeople #blackcaribbean #blackbritish #blackhistory #blackchildren #blackmastodon
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🎹💙 Caribbean-born pianist Winifred Atwell honoured with [english] Heritage Blue Plaque!
The internationally renowned pianist, TV personality and trailblazing entrepreneur Winifred Atwell was celebrated with a blue plaque
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Edward Archibald Markham (1 October 1939 – 23 March 2008)
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackcaribbean #blackpoets #blackplaywrights #blacknovelists #blackacademics
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Kelso Cochrane (26 September 1926 – 17 May 1959)
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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackcaribbean #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackhistory #blackmastodon
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"The people that are making this world worse don't take a day off, how can I?" - Bob Marley
"Bob was shot before a concert for peace....... he did not cancel.... when a reporter asked him why, that was his answer."
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/jul/16/urban.worldmusic
#blackmusic #blackjamaican #blackcaribbean #biracial #blackmastodon
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@taasharenee, a Black Queen shared the text and images below.
I can stare at you forever! Currently snuggled up with my baby boy in our @babieskea wrap...
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“Put him down...let him cry and work his lungs...you’re going to spoil him!”(1/5)
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When Gary Sobers hit the cricket world for six…
On this day in 1968, the Windies Cricket legend made history by becoming the first man to hit six sixes in an over while playing for Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan. Devastating.Apologies for referencing bbc when they're biased.
https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/114926220162146397 -
known mononymously as Cassie, is an American singer, dancer, actress, and model.
Early life
...Her mother is of African-American, Mexican and West Indian descent. Her father is Filipino.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassie_Ventura
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About 30% of the slave plantations in the Caribbean were owned by Scots.
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/scotlands-links-caribbean-slavery#blackcaribbean #blackamerican #blackbritish #scotland #whitepeople #blackmastodon
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Linton Kwesi Johnson CD (born 24 August 1952), also known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, [british]-based dub poet and activist. In 2002, he became the
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackjamaican #blackcaribbean #blackbritish #blackfirsts #blackdubpoets #blacktivists #blackmastodon
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[Carlos Alcis was executed by the pigs on August 15, 2013.]
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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackcaribbean #blackfrench #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackmastodon
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Edric Esclus Connor (2 Aug 1913 – 13 Oct 1968)
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#blackcaribbean #blacsingers #blacfolklorists #blacactors #blacktrini #blacktrinidaddian #blackfirsts
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Every day on the streets of the [uk], in playgrounds, classrooms, shops, at work, on public transport, [Black] and minority ethnic people are racially harassed.
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#blackpeople #blackbritish #blackafrican #blackcaribbean #britishasian #whitepeople #police #whitedevil #blackmastodon
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Warrant Officer Class 2 Johnson Gideon Beharry, VC, COG (born 26 July 1979), is a [british] Army soldier who, on 18 March 2005, was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour in
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackcaribbean #blackbritish #blackfirsts #blackmastodon