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...Though familiar to Americans primarily as a laid-back beach destination, Jamaica is hardly idyllic. The country has the world's highest murder rate. And its rampant violence against gays and lesbians has prompted human-rights groups to confer another ugly distinction: the most homophobic place on earth...
...school. Months later, witnesses say, police egged on another mob that stabbed and stoned a gay man to death in Montego Bay. And this year a Kingston man, Nokia Cowan, drowned after a crowd shouting "batty boy" (a Jamaican epithet for homosexual) chased him off a pier. "Jamaica is the worst any of us has ever seen," says Rebecca Schleifer of the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch and author of a scathing report on the island's anti-gay hostility...
...dance mix spun by a DJ duo. The proceeds from the concert will be donated to the Selula Sandla AME Village, a home for HIV orphans in Swaziland, and the Liberty Hall Youth Culture Center, which teaches cultural literacy and computer skills to children in the ghettoes of Kingston, Jamaica. “No one is strong enough to stand alone—no matter how strong your beat...the movement is stronger than the sum of its parts,” Ashong said in his closing speech, asking the audience to raise their hands...
...Shakir family on remembershirin.com, a website they established for friends and families to share stories and pictures of Shirin, her older brother and uncle were scheduled to return from Peru with her body this morning. Her body will then be taken to the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Jamaica, N.Y. where the funeral service is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. A native of Great Neck, N.Y., and a 2003 graduate of Williams College, Shakir was an active member of the Harvard Law School Council, the International Law Society, and the Public Interest Auction. She worked with...
...others, the exhibit presented both an exciting and somewhat frightening opportunity.“I realized today that all these people had seen my stuff. It was very sobering; it’s a very personal thing,” says Daniel Fokine, a 24-year-old Jamaica Plains resident who has been painting toy models since he was 13. About a year ago, he started making them from scratch, as well as painting them. Nine of his pieces were on display, including two surreal spirit figures, all white, throwing what appeared to be little red balls. Next to Fokine?...