February 13, 2024

Pan is joyful, wonderful music

Stick around pan long enough – in all its manifestations as a musical instrument and agent of social mobilisation and change – and you eventually realise that any “beating” experienced will come from its own hands. By Wesley Gibbings from the height of Trinidad & Tobago Carnival Read on here

February 13, 2024

Pan is joyful, wonderful music

Stick around pan long enough – in all its manifestations as a musical instrument and agent of social mobilisation and change – and you eventually realise that any “beating” experienced will come from its own hands.

December 24, 2023

Collection of Afro-Puerto Rican art displayed at Casa Silvana

Humacao, Puerto Rico – Curator Edwin Velázquez Collazo is the administrator in the creation of the first collection of Afro-Puerto Rican art that will be showcased at Casa Silvana, an alternative rural space for the dissemination of Afro-Puerto Rican art which he founded and directs in the municipality of Humacao. Violeta Vani, “Atlas”, 2023, 14” […]

December 19, 2023

Nation Building | Book by former St. Maarten Governor Eugene Holiday chronicles island attaining Country Status

With this latest book, “Nation Building, Our Challenges, Resilience and Responsibility”, in short Nation Building, author drs. Eugene B. Holiday delivers a socio-political history book covering significant developments of the first two decades of 21st century Sint Maarten and provides building blocks for the nation’s further development.

December 19, 2023

Statia Alliance reveals names of Afrikan ancestors of Golden Rock plantation

The St. Eustatius Afrikan Burial Ground Alliance reveals the names, ages, professions, and religious beliefs of 96 ancestors who were once connected to the Golden Rock plantation on St. Eustatius. This is part of the project “Remember Statia: Tracing Our Origins” that encourages the St. Eustatius community to make the Afrikan history of the island more visible and more personal.

November 10, 2023

Flags and St. Martin Day

On any given day, at least five flags fly on this 37 square miles island of St. Martin that we all call home. They are, in no particular order of importance, the St. Martin Unity Flag (North and South of our island), the St. Martin (South) flag, the flag of the Republic of France, the flag of the Kingdom of The Netherlands, and the European Union flag.

November 3, 2023

Report: Black people in the EU face ever more racism

Almost half of people of African descent in the EU face racism and discrimination in their daily life – a rise since 2016. Racist harassment and ethnic profiling are also common, especially for young people, finds a new survey from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). FRA calls on EU countries to take urgent steps to tackle racial discrimination and harassment to ensure everybody is treated equally and with dignity.