New York City’s Caribbean creative community gathered in Manhattan on Jan. 14 for a milestone moment as Haitian-American artist Mickael Marabou hosted a historic Audiomack Connect event, becoming the first Caribbean artist to lead a Connect experience on the platform. According to Haitian-American entertainment publicist Marie Driven, managing director of the Brooklyn-based PlaybookMG, “the Afro… Read More

Mayor of the City of  New York Zohran K. Mamdani, on Feb. 3, joined the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), NYC Health + Hospitals, and MetroPlusHealth to kick off the 2026 tax season by announcing free, in-person and virtual tax preparation services for New Yorkers as part of DCWP’s NYC Free Tax Prep… Read More

Mayor of the City of  New York Zohran K. Mamdani, on Feb. 3, joined the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), NYC Health + Hospitals, and MetroPlusHealth to kick off the 2026 tax season by announcing free, in-person and virtual tax preparation services for New Yorkers as part of DCWP’s NYC Free Tax Prep… Read More

Barbados Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley recently announced Feb. 11 as the date for a general election in her country, with Nomination Day on Jan. 27. This is the second time she has called a snap election within at least one year of the end of her five-year term in office. Mottley led the Barbados… Read More

The Tenement Museum, a nonprofit on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, will host a family program honoring Black History Month on Feb. 8. The Tenement Museum is located at 103 Orchard St., at the corner of Delancey Street. It has two historic tenement buildings at 97 and 103 Orchard St. The visitor center and ticket office… Read More

Bronx CookSpace is a newly renovated, shared commercial kitchen and incubator in the South Bronx, owned and operated by WHEDco, a nonprofit that believes everyone deserves healthy, vibrant communities. Bronx CookSpace supports over 25-member businesses, including caterers, bakers, packaged food and beverage producers, and early-stage restaurateurs — many founded by Caribbean immigrants or first-generation New… Read More

Torino celebrerà domani i vent’anni della Linea 1 della metropolitana, l’opera che ha segnato una svolta nella mobilità urbana della città. L’inaugurazione risale al 4 febbraio 2006, alla vigilia delle Olimpiadi Invernali, quando entrò in funzione la tratta Fermi–XVIII Dicembre, portando nel capoluogo piemontese la prima metropolitana automatica d’Italia. Un progetto avviato negli anni Novanta… Read More

Books on Black History and Black Life for Kids by various authors 2025, 2026, Various publishers                              $17.99-$18.99                 Various page counts Everybody in your family has stories to share. Your parents have told you some, no doubt. Your grandparents have offered few, too, and aunties and uncles have spun some good tales. But there’s so… Read More

Un corso di formazione in collaborazione con il Corpo di Polizia Locale della Città di Torino. È questa l’iniziativa portata avanti dai gruppi Stellantis, Iveco Group e CNH per la sensibilizzazione e formazione, in ottica di prevenzione, sul tema della violenza di genere. Alla presenza dell’assessore alla Polizia Locale e alla Sicurezza di Torino Marco… Read More

The reggae fraternity is again gripped in grief following the death of an avowed ‘reggae ambassador’ and the back-to-back death of the last of the Taxi Records’ famous ‘riddim twins.’ Genre loyalists were saddened by an announcement on Monday, Jan. 19, which confirmed the death of Third World founder/guitarist Stephen “Cat” Coore. More baffling to… Read More