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Pretend It’s Summer Again: In Trinidad It Always Is—Trini Food at Pearl’s in New York City

A woman-owned place in Williamsburg dishes out bakes, rotis, curry stews and everything that has tamarind, coconut or rum in it by finding new heights for the diverse, flavorful Caribbean cuisine

December 12th, 2019|Country: Trinidad and Tobago, USA|

Music: Mighty Sparrow, Soca Anthology: Doctor Bird, 2011

The most honored king of calypso whose sharp tongue had turned to a variety of topics, like sex, race, slavery and politics, which he then fearlessly explored—a musical treasure still performing at 84

October 21st, 2019|Country: Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago|

Film: Hero, dir. Frances-Anne Solomon, 2018

A biopic of an extraordinary Trinidadian lawyer whose life spanned some of the most fascinating events of the 20th century, which doubles as a primer on the history of the Pan-Africanist movement.

July 5th, 2019|Country: Cameroon, Canada, DR Congo, Ghana, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom|

Film: Bigger Than Africa, dir. Toyin Ibrahim Adekeye, 2018

A long overdue educational and mesmerizing documentary on the way Yoruba religion spread from West Africa to many regions of the world via slave trade routes: and people practicing it today

June 19th, 2019|Country: Benin, Brazil, Cuba, Nigeria, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, USA|

Book: Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night, 2009

A queer Caribbean gothic novel from Irish-Trinidadian author

May 12th, 2019|Country: Ireland, Trinidad and Tobago|

Book: Andre Alexis, Days by Moonlight, 2019

February 6th, 2019|Country: Canada, Trinidad and Tobago|

Book: Nicholas Laughlin, So Many Islands, 2018

September 11th, 2018|Country: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, Cyprus, Fiji, Grenada, Jamaica, Malta, Mauritius, Niue, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and The Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago|