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Nicky Grant ‘02 actually won the hammer throw, but was competing without affiliation and therefore was ineligible to officially place. Grant, a former team captain, All-America selection and top placer at the World Championships for Jamaica, was one of many former Crimson track and field athletes to compete in the meet...
...vision of Paul Butler and Aaron Fletcher, A Band of Bees sounds like a more cheerful Beta Band hailing from Jamaica. Somewhat difficult to classify, their music falls somewhere in between indie rock, trip-hop and reggae...
According to Buell, the department is also offering a “longer-term appointment” to Visiting Lecturer on English and American Literature Jamaica Kincaid, who is now teaching one fiction class...
Most of the time, though, 50 Cent is content to blow just himself up—his ego, that is—but the violence that characterized his drug-dealing days in the Jamaica, Queens ghetto is never far beneath the surface of pimps and bitches. Rap would not be rap without puns and guns, and 50 Cent obeys this golden rule. “I aim straight for your head / So don’t push me / Fill your ass up with lead / So don’t push me,” he threatens...
...Twenty of the poets are black, including relatively familiar figures such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, and Jupiter Hammon. Others are more surprising: Francis Williams, a free black from Jamaica who studied at Cambridge University in the early 1700s; George White, a former slave from Virginia who only learned to read at age 42 yet became a preacher and published author; and the anonymous "Sable Bard" of 1797 who tells his story in verse, from enslavement as a child in Africa, transport to America, and service in the Revolutionary War, to manumission and the struggle to survive as a freeman...