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Thankfully, the department has retained some of its most noted luminaries, such as W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., who is the department’s chair, as well as hosting visiting stars such as Jamaica Kincaid and Elvis Mitchell. And it continues to offer a broad range of programs for both concentrators and non-concentrators...
...Hurricane Ivan continued its savage sweep through the Caribbean, devastating the little island of Grenada and battering Jamaica, Stanley Goldenberg, a research meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Miami, got ready to fly out over the frenzied ocean. As a scientist, Goldenberg was thrilled by Ivan's wild beauty. As a longtime resident of Dade County, he was worried about the welfare of his wife and kids...
Dance-hall reggae may be one of the hottest things thrumming in the U.S. club scene, but the genre's current headline act Beenie Man is also taking heat from gay activists for his violently homophobic lyrics. His song Damn includes the lyrics, "I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays." And the activism seems to be working. A campaign called Stop Murder Music, launched by London-based OutRage, forced MTV to cancel an Aug. 28 performance in Miami by the Grammy Award--winning reggae artist. With the help of OutRage, activists in New York...
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO COMBAT PIRACY? The Wailers might have been the most pirated group coming out of Jamaica, because we were accepted globally. I can't be wasting too much time and energy on these pirates because sometimes it's not worth...
...most cleverest students in America,” he said, noting later that he considers this country to be among the greatest in the world, behind Jamaica and Thailand...