Word: caribbeans
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...yourself back into your parents’ good graces. Tell them you’re spending the first night of your weekend at the Pour House. Make sure not to tell them that the Pour House is a bar in Boston, and that you’re going for Caribbean night. Reps from Malibu and Sauza buy patrons drinks from 9 to 10 p.m., and don’t miss the all-night buffet with authentic Caribbean fare. With a weekly free trip giveaway to somewhere warm and sunny, rest assured you’ve found the hottest spot around...
...from American public discourse. Now, black people can legally share water fountains, restaurants and even Harvard classes with non-black people. But while de jure segregation and discrimination are in their death throes, their de facto manifestations are as strong as ever worldwide. Collectively, black infants in America, the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa are nearly ten times more likely to die in their first year than their white American and European counterparts. If a black baby manages to survive her first year, the mere fact that she is black makes her more likely to be malnourished, impoverished, incarcerated, raped...
...feathered arc of a doctorbird's tail, the spicy tang of jerked pork, the gray serenity of Blue Mountain mist. These are images and sensations from a particular place, a certain spot in the Caribbean that has been called "the Land of Wood and Water" by some and "The Land of Look Behind" by others. Columbus deemed it "the fairest island that eyes have beheld" and listed it as Yamaye in a log entry in 1493. The Indians who were the first inhabitants called it Xaymaica and other variations; Spanish invaders called the place "Santiago" but after the British took...
...could not just say it and make it so. There was a cultural and musical divide to cross that seemed as wide as the Caribbean Sea, and not nearly as warm or inviting. Marley's bandmate, Peter Tosh, once complained to Oui magazine "The devil created disco, telling black people to 'get down get down' all the time. But I man seh to black people 'Get up stand up for your rights...
...will sponsor open events throughout the month along with the Association of Black Harvard Women, the Anne Radcliffe Trust, the BMF, the Harvard African Students Association, the Harvard Caribbean Club, the Harvard Political Union, the Harvard Society for Black Scientists and Engineers, and the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College...