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She Burned the Plantation Down. Denmark Never Let Her Go.
In October 1878, three women known as the Fire Queens led 300 workers in burning 53 sugar estates across St. Croix in the Danish...
JAMAICAN GANGSTER: Vivian Blake — The Mastermind Behind the Global Shower Posse Empire
He wasn't a gunman. He was an architect. In 1973, seventeen-year-old Vivian Blake boarded a plane to New York as part of a Jamaican...
Reggae Dancehall Pioneers: Clement "Coxsone" Dodd | Studio One, The Downbeat Sound & The Blueprint of Jamaican Music
He built the most important recording studio in Jamaican music history. He recorded The Wailers, The Skatalites, Burning Spear, Dennis Brown, and hundreds of...
JAMAICAN GANGSTER: Zeeks — The King of Matthews Lane and the Downtown Lockdown
In September 1998, the streets of downtown Kingston were on fire. Tires burned. Guns fired into the air. Four people died. And the entire...
Reggae Dancehall Pioneers: DUKE REID - The Gunman Producer Who Built Treasure Isle
Duke Reid — The Trojan — walked into every recording session at Treasure Isle with two pistols on his hips and a shotgun across...
Haiti: The 200 Years That Built This Gang State