300,000 seedlings to be planted to help with Melissa forestry recovery and long-term resilience jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news...

RIP Stephen “Cat” Coore, co-founder of Third World, one of the world’s greatest #reggae bands. Thank you for the music, which spanned different genres. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XXeY...

“Goldsmiths has honoured one of its most prominent graduates by dedicating a lecture theatre to poet and activist Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ).” #poetry #Caribbean #Britain #Jamaica #writing #arts www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/li...

The private correspondence of #Jamaican-born #writer Claude McKay (key Harlem Renaissance figure) was recently published by Yale University Press. Here's our first brief review: ”A Peep into Claude McKay’s ‘Letters in Exile’”. southernworldartsnews.blogspot.com/2026/01/book... Also @ipsnews.net

New from @dukepress.bsky.social : P FKN R How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance By Vanessa Díaz & Petra R. Rivera-Rideau “…offers a critical reflection of Puerto Rico’s history and culture through one of its main exponents, Bad Bunny…” - Jorell Meléndez-Badillo #Caribe

The #dahlias are here. #flowers #gardens #gardeners #parks #Paris #blooms #autumn

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its publication, STORIES FROM YARD has a new cover, new edition, @peepaltreepress.bsky.social #books #stories #writing #Jamaica #Caribbean #reading #readers #writers #publishing #Caraibe

To read~ QUIET DAWN by Jean-Claude Fignolé, translated, w/ intro, by K. L. Glover & L. Dubois “…offers an intriguing and painful saga of a colonial family moving through history, painting portraits of many of the towering figures from #Haiti’s colonial past.” - Amy Wilentz @dukepress.bsky.social

Sharing: April 29 to May 6 ~ The 27th Festival du Cinéma Brésilien de Paris / Brazilian Film Festival of Paris. Info: www.jangada.org/festival-eve...

#Trees. #Blooms.

“James Baldwin” (vers 1945-1950) by Beauford Delaney - one of the paintings in “Paris Noir: Circulations artistiques et luttes anticoloniales, 1950 – 2000”. The exhibition features 150 #artists & gives another view of French #art history. Incl. other works by Delaney. @centrepompidou.bsky.social

Rejoignez-nous du 3 au 7 avril pour découvrir l'œuvre de la cinéaste Sarah Maldoror ! 🎥 À l'occasion de l' #ExpoParisNoir, le Centre Pompidou rend hommage à cette cinéaste unique dont le travail documente et questionne plus que jamais le présent. Tout le programme ici 👉 bit.ly/CP_CycleSarahMaldoror

“Umbral” (1950), by Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam, is among the works by #Caribbean #artists in the exceptional exhibition “Paris Noir: Circulations artistiques et luttes anticoloniales, 1950 – 2000”. Featuring 150 Black artists in French #art #history. Until June 30 @centrepompidou.bsky.social.

April 10 & 11, seminar, Poitiers, France: L’humour et le rire dans la littérature et les arts de la #Caraïbe Humor and Laughter in #Caribbean #Literature and #Arts caracol.hypotheses.org

Flowers and the city.

Exhibition “Music + Life” runs until May 18 @ the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris - 1st retrospective of artist Dennis Morris in France. Highlights “the full collection of his photographs capturing his youth in London, while also celebrating his iconic portraits” of Bob Marley, others.

Kingston is my birthplace and my happy place. Nice to see it getting some love in T magazine with some f my faves highlighted within. The Caribbean Capital That’s a Creative Superpower— A guide to Kingston, Jamaica, with tips from four insiders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/t...

Yes, Paris has a Poets’ Garden… #poetry #writing

Afternoon listening. RIP Roberta

#Caribbean #writing #Jamaica #stories

Sharing ~ Call for Papers Alice Diop’s Cinema: (Re)formulating the Real / Le cinéma d’Alice Diop : (Re)formuler le réel Center for French and Francophone Studies Duke University April 11th, 2025 Info (in French & Eng.): www.fabula.org/actualites/1... #film #history #cinema #arts #language

Monday thought:

In good company… #books #reading #writing #Caribbean #translation

ART IS THE ANSWER - seen at the Boghossian Foundation / #Alechinsky exhibition (“Alechinsky, pinceau voyageur”, until March 16), #Brussels. #art #artists #painting

Work by Beauford Delaney is included in the epic exhibition WHEN WE SEE US: A CENTURY OF BLACK FIGURATION IN PAINTING (at Bozar, #Brussels, Feb. 7 - Aug. 10). “Untitled (Man in African Dress)” was painted c. 1970. #art #artists #history #arthistory

The phenomenal exhibition “WHEN WE SEE US: A century of Black Figuration in Painting” is on at Bozar, #Brussels, Feb. 7 - Aug. 10. It brings together 150 artworks from the past 100 years by black #artists worldwide. Conceived & organized by Zeitz MOCAA; curated by Koyo Kouoh & Tandazani Dhlakama.

Yes, all set on replacing ourselves. #Exhibition - "Artificial intelligence: a (r)evolution?" - on at BnF (Paris), 8 Feb, ahead of Summit for Action on Artificial Intelligence (10-11 Feb), hosted by France. Cartoon by Ed Hall via @cartooningforpeace.bsky.social #art #AI

"That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times." - Parable of the Sower, O. Butler

It’s the beginning of a new month in an already discombobulating year. But amidst the chaos, new books help us through. Top of my list: Harlem Rhapsody explores the legacy of Jessie Redmon Fauset, literary “midwife” to the Harlem Renaissance. More via @literaryhub lithub.com/josephine-ba...

Langston Hughes

On the reading list: SPECULATIVE LIGHT The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin Ed: Amy J. Elias @dukepress.bsky.social The #book “bears extraordinary witness to the lives of two men, devoted to their craft, moving always in the direction of wonder and uncertainty...” - Stephen Best #arts

Sharing - Feb. 25, in #Paris. Wheatley at 250: Celebrating the Legacy of America’s First Published African-American Poet #writers #writing #history #literature #poetry americanlibraryinparis.org/event/wheatl...

February: Reggae Month and the 80th anniversary of Bob Marley’s birth. Events include tribute to Dennis Brown and BM birthday concert. More info: visit-jamaica.com/reggae-month... #Jamaica #Caribbean #music #arts

Sharing ~ The group exhibition “Le pays de Cacagne” at Cecile Fakhoury gallery in #Paris highlights the “spirit” of West Africa. Works by 10 #artists, including Souleymane Keïta, Ouattara Watts, Rachel Marsil, Vincent Michéa… Until March 29. #art #African #paintings #sculpture

It's the International Day of Education. Today's cartoon by Custodio. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com/search?query... #school #education #war

“LOVERS ROCK” is a collection of 7 love stories by #Jamaican writers, presented via Calabash International Literary Festival (Treasure Beach) & Audible, and dropping Feb. 20. Edited by Kwame Dawes. #Jamaica #Caribbean #stories #audiobooks #writing #reading

The Louvre’s president ‘warned that the centuries-old building is in a dire state, and pointed at problems with water leaks and "worrying temperature swings which endanger the conservation of works of #art".’ - via Reuters www.reuters.com/world/europe...

“…When I look at a heaping pile of suitcases, all I see is a corresponding number of human lives… I think back on the feelings of these people on the morning of their departure.” - Chiharu Shiota, in powerful exhibition “The Soul Trembles”, @ Grand Palais, #Paris. #art #artists

Sharing - call for papers: FANON AT 100: revolutionary afterlives Dec. 5-6, 2025 Institute for Languages Cultures and Societies, Senate House London Deadline for abstracts: 17 Feb. 2025 sfps.org.uk/2024/12/16/c...

Currently reading: The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom by Erik S.McDuffie @dukepress.bsky.social #MarcusGarvey #books #history #activism #rights #Caribbean #Jamaica #diaspora

“LOVERS ROCK” is a collection of 7 love stories by #Jamaican writers, presented via Calabash International Literary Festival (Treasure Beach) & Audible, and dropping Feb. 20. Edited by Kwame Dawes. #Jamaica #Caribbean #stories #audiobooks #writing #reading

Biden posthumously pardons Marcus Garvey. #Jamaica #Caribbean #rights apnews.com/article/bide...

Notice from Cartooning for Peace:

Sharing - Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons By Maya J. Berry @dukepress.bsky.social Anthropologist & dancer Berry “examines rumba as a way of knowing the embodied and spiritual dimensions of Black political imagination in post-Fidel #Cuba…”” #Caribbean

"The Witch Studies Reader," edited by Soma Chaudhuri & @gentlemanjane.bsky.social, brings together a diverse group of scholars & practitioners who examine witchcraft from a critical decolonial feminist perspective. Read the intro for free now! https://buff.ly/4271dMH