by David H. Jackson Jr. | May 12, 2022 | Caribbean Head of State, Global African History, People
The Most Honorable Andrew Michael Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica, was born on July 22, 1972, in Spanish Town, Jamaica, and named in honor of former Prime Minister of Jamaica Michael Manley to Morris Holness, a farmer and socialist, and Carol Harvey Williams, a...
by divimachine | Apr 21, 2022 | Caribbean Head of State, Global African History, People
Sir William Alexander Bustamante ONH GBE PC was a Jamaican politician and trade union leader who became the first Prime Minister of Jamaica in 1962. He was born William Alexander Clarke on February 24, 1884, to Mary Clarke and Robert Constantine Clarke. Bustamante...
by FikesRobert | Apr 4, 2022 | African American History, People
Dwight Arrington “Heavy D” Myers was a rapper, record producer, and actor. Myers was born on May 24, 1967, to Eulahlee Lee and Vincent Myers in Mandeville, Manchester, Jamaica. His family moved to Mount Vernon, New York, from Jamaica. Much of Myers of early life is...
by StuckeyMelissa | Mar 30, 2022 | African American History, People
Marcus Jacques Garvey, Jr., was the oldest son of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Sr., founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) and Amy Euphemia Jacques. The UNIA-ACL, a leading black nationalist organization, was founded...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Mar 27, 2022 | African American History, People
Scientist Karen Elizabeth Nelson was born in Jamaica in 1950 and migrated to the United States in the 1970s. She received a Bachelor of Science in Animal Science from the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, in 1972 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from...
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