#jamaicans — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #jamaicans, aggregated by home.social.
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How do you raise a child when your own mother left you behind? Best known for the spoken word series #DefPoetryJam and her acclaimed solo show #MotherStruck! , #JamaicanAmerican #poet and #LGBTQ+ #activist Staceyann Chin embarks on a winding, emotionally raw journey to find the woman who disappeared from her life. From #Brooklyn to #Montreal , from #Cologne to #Kingston , she confronts buried pain, seeks elusive answers and ultimately embraces the radical act of #forgiveness. Alongside her daughter, she redefines home, healing, and the very meaning of #motherhood.
A Mother Apart is a powerful testament to #resilience , #reconciliation , and the #courage to break cycles of neglect.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/a-mother-apart/
#Jamaicans #Documentary #NFB #CanadianFilm #Abandonment #BlackMastodon
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At the height of the golden age of reggae, some of #Jamaica ’s brightest stars left their homeland behind to shine their light in an unlikely hub of #Caribbean creativity: #Toronto.
Sounds & Pressure: #Reggae in a Foreign Land follows the journeys of these icons. Through rare archives and infectious beats, this captivating five-part #anthology series takes you from #Kingston to #KensingtonMarket to see and hear how reggae made roots in #Canada against all odds.
https://www.nfb.ca/series/sounds-pressure/?hp_=feature_1
#BlackCanadians #Immigrants #Jamaicans #Canada #Ontario #BIPOC #BlackCulture #CulturalDiversity #FilmSeries #NFB #CanadianFilm
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Stuart Henry McPhail Hall (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist,
#blackmen #blackpeople #blackbritish #jamaicans #blackmarxists #blacksociologists #blackculturaltheorists #blacktivists #blackmastodon #culturaltheorists
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"An innovation that propelled Britain to become the world’s leading iron exporter during the Industrial Revolution was appropriated from an 18th-century Jamaican foundry, historical records suggest.
Now, an analysis of correspondence, shipping records and contemporary newspaper reports reveals the innovation was first developed by 76 (enslaved) black Jamaican metallurgists at an ironworks near Morant Bay, Jamaica."