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New York, NY – Known for his multiple chart-topping catalog hits, multi-award-winning Dancehall artiste Sean Paul has joined the Pandora Billionaires Club. The surprise presentation, held in Sean Paul’s hometown of Kingston, Jamaica was set to commemorate Sean’s 1.7 billion streams to date on the
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Canon Llewellyn Armstrong dies in New York | New York Carib News
A prominent Caribbean theologian in New York, Canon Dr. Llewellyn Armstrong, who served at different churches in North America and his Barbados birthplace for almost 60 years, has died at his Brooklyn home.
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Holder, Eric H. (1951- )
Eric H. Holder, Jr., U.S. Attorney General since 2009, was born on January 21, 1951 in the Bronx, New York to parents of Barbadian descent, Eric, a real estate agent and Miriam Holder, a telephone operator.  Holder was raised in East Elmhurst, Queens, a community which included a number of famous
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Vanessa Lynn Williams was born in Tarrytown, New York on March 18, 1963.
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New COVID pre-testing requirement for some US visitors
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced new COVID pre-testing requirements for visitors to Jamaica from high-risk US states. At a press conference at Jamaica House on Monday, Holness said as of July 10, people visiting Jamaica from Florida, New...
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Derek Jeter Expertly Shades A Sportswriter In Hall Of Fame Speech
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100 Black Men of American Inc. is a civic organization dedicated to the improvement of quality of life in the African American community through fostering the development of young African American men.  In 1963, a group of African American men met in New York to discuss concerns about the cultural
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US legislatures slow to pass laws limiting use of force
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#BTColumn – Difficult conversations about Barbados needed - Barbados Today
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by this author are their own and do not represent the official position of the Barbados Today Inc. by Suleiman Bulbulia Oscar Wilde once famously said that “life imitates art far more than art imitates life”. This past week has witnessed robust
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Faith Evans: Incomparable
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24/7 Wall St. reviewed projections from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation which provides estimated peak COVID-19 dates in every state, both in terms of the total number of estimated active infections and the total number of hospital beds needed to treat COVID-19
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Battle, Kathleen (1948- )
American soprano Kathleen Battle was born on August 13, 1948 in Portsmouth, Ohio. Battle’s father was a steelworker and her mother was an active participant in the gospel choir at the family’s local African Methodist Episcopal Church. Battle attended Portsmouth High School and upon graduation was
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HoodCelebrityy celebrates the 'Champion' in everyone as the world moves to post-pandemic | New York Carib News
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Curtiss Cook of ‘The Chi’ Stars in The Steven Spielberg Remake of West Side Story. | Chicago Defender
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