Tag: Caribbean

In the 18th century, gunpowder was a highly regulated trade good. Empires like the British and the Spanish wanted to ensure that rebels, pirates, and criminals could not access the valuable material. Gunpowder was hard to make and hard to source. The United States did not have local gunpowder manufa...

When creative activations and art fairs produced by Art Africa, No Commission, AfriCOBRA, and PRIZM claimed space adjacent to Art Basel Miami Beach then attracted collectors, scholars and admired artists, Black Basel was born. The intellectual and creative void their presence fil...

For 18 years we’ve vacationed in all-inclusive resorts, mostly in Riviera Maya, along the Eastern coast of Mexico. The vacations were a refuge from the stress of a demanding corporate job, coupled by raising two kids, which came with endless house chores and driving from one sports class to an...

How would you feel if you were less likely to have access to something as valuable as a pension scheme because of your gender? Imagine if this was the case, and you lived longer than the opposite sex; would you feel valued? What if your country failed to sign a protocol to commit to reducing the ...

The Taino chief Hatuey (ah-Twei) was born in the late 1400s on Gonave Island next to Hispaniola (1). With little being known of his birthdate or early life, historians speculate he had assumed the status of cacique (chief) among the Taino peoples around the period of Cristoforo Colombo&...

Anacaona was born in 1474 in Yaguana, Hispaniola (the island which is now divided between Haití and Dominican Republic). She became Cacique, (a Tribal Chief of the Taino people) of Jaragua after the death of the previous chief, her brother Bohechio. She was married to Caonabo, Caciq...