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Reggae Dancehall Pioneers: King Edwards | The Third Giant of the Original Sound System Trinity
Before the recording studios. Before the international labels. Before the world knew what Jamaica was capable of — three men were running speaker systems...
JAMAICAN GANGSTER: Jim Brown — The Rise of the Don Dadda and the Mystery of Cell 4
Lester Lloyd Coke — known as Jim Brown — was the most powerful gang don Jamaica ever produced. From the bullet-riddled streets of Denham...
Reggae Dancehall Pioneers: The Skatalites | Don Drummond, Jackie Mittoo & The All-Star Band That Built Ska
The full story of The Skatalites — the Jamaican instrumental supergroup that invented ska. From the Alpha Boys' School alumni who formed its core,...
The Slave Who Called Himself Governor. The Dutch Had to Write Back. | History of the Caribbean
In February of 1763, an enslaved Akan man named Cuffy led the largest slave revolt in Dutch colonial history — and then formally proposed...
The Woman History Forgot: Nanny Grigg & Bussa's 1816 Rebellion
Easter Sunday, 1816. Barbados. Thousands of enslaved people rose up and burned the cane fields — and the woman who told them why they...
Reggae Dancehall Pioneers: Toots & The Maytals | The Man Who Named Reggae
The definitive story of Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert — the man who named reggae, sang like Otis Redding, and spent 50 years in the shadow...