Brooklyn J'Ouvert 2018 Results

J’Ouvert City International kicked off its 2018 celebration by honoring 25 individuals from our community who have worked hard behind the scenes to ensure that our culture is maintained in Central Brooklyn. They were known as “J’Ouvert Cultural Ambas

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Labor Day Carnival: More Questions

By: Tony Best -- Carib News

          The seeming lack of an acceptable level of transparency and accountability in the way the West Indian American Carnival Association handles New York state funds that are used to help stage the country’s largest

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Posters on Facebook, identifying themselves as cops, call participants in Brooklyn West Indian Day parade 'animals' and 'savages'

Posters on Facebook, identifying themselves as cops, call participants in Brooklyn West Indian Day parade 'animals' and 'savages'

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Labor Day In New York - Work It. Work It. Work It.

This Labor Day, while my peers "win'in' down de place" and "hittin' de rum" (puncheon, anyt'ing!) on de Parkway in Brooklyn, we are reminded of the origin of this US federal holiday, the offspring of the working-class and organized unions. Ironically

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