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BPM Executive Director Leslie Fields-Cruz.

Arts & Entertainment

After Federal cut, Black Public Media launches $9M ‘Black Stories’ Fund

By Nelson A. King

Dr. Dawn Marie Silvera, left, with friend, supporter and Jamaican compatriot Icilda Sibley at the Gala 28th Annual Vernese Weeks Scholarship Luncheon of the Bronx-Manhattan-Westchester (BMW) Chapter of the New York-based Caribbean-American Nurses Association (CANA) at Eastwood Manor in the Bronx.

Jamaica

Jamaican Family Nurse Practitioner Dr. Dawn Marie Silvera extols ‘sacred call of nursing’

By Nelson A. King

New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Bahamas

AG Letitia James warns against charity scams amid Hurricane Melissa relief efforts

By Nelson A. King

Caribbean-American Democratic U.S. Representative Yvette D. Clarke addresses town hall meeting at George Wingate High School Auditorium in Brooklyn on June 16, 2025.

Jamaica

Sea-lift operation to aid Jamaica in wake of Hurricane Melissa

By Nelson A. King

Kacy Rankine at the Audacy Studio.

Music

NYC’s Roadblock Caribbean Radio expands to Connecticut

By Nelson A. King

Yvonne Peters makes grand entrance during her MTA retirement celebration in June 2025.

Fashion

CACG recruits beauty pageant contestants

By Nelson A. King

From top left: Kronos Quartet by Danica Taylor, Harry Connick Jr. by Georgia Connick, Rhiannon Giddens by Karen Cox, Marin Alsop by Nancy Horowitz,Wynton Marsalis by Piper Ferguson, and Artemis by John Abbott.

Music

Carnegie Hall presents ‘United in Sound: America at 250’ Festival

By Nelson A. King

Jacqueline Hopkins conducts The Jacqueline Hopkins Choir during its world premiere at FSUMC.

Jamaica

Homecoming Harmony

By Nelson A. King

City Council Member Mercedes Narcisse

Caribbean

Caribbean politicians seek re-election

By Nelson A. King

Judge Jacqueline Williams at the Brooklyn Canarsie Lions' Annual Masquerade Ball on Oct. 17, 2025 in Canarsie, Brooklyn.

Courts

Battle for the Bench: Williams and Eze vie for Kings County Court seats

By Nelson A. King

Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister and Minister for National Security, Legal Affairs and Information of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 80th session.

St Vincent

SVG PM wants nationals to ‘own the future’

By Nelson A. King

From left, Dr. Natasha Telesford, VP of CMM; Brenda Brown, volunteer; Daidrey DaSilva, Jamaica Cancer Society; and Dr. Donna Hutton-Cassie, CMM president, present a check at the Jamaica Cancer Society office in St. Ann, Jamaica.

Africa

CMM Black-Tie Gala to support medical missions to Caribbean, Africa

By Nelson A. King

St. Vincent and the Grenadines Consul General to the US Rondy "Luta" McIntosh addresses Ecumenical Service of Thanksgiving in Brooklyn on Sunday, Oct. 19, commemorating St. Vincent and the Grenadines 46th Anniversary of Political Independence from Great Britain.

St Vincent

‘Keep the Caribbean a Zone of Peace’: Vincentian diplomat warns amid U.S. Military buildup

By Nelson A. King

U.S. Rep. Yvette D. Clarke.

Clarke, immigration advocates condemn ICE raid in Chinatown

By Nelson A. King

Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson addressing the Caribbean-American Heritage Month Celebration at Andrew Freeman House, 1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.

Bronx

Gibson hosts annual DiVA Spa in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month

By Nelson A. King

Governor Hochul.

Health

Hochul rips Republicans for spiking health care costs for New Yorkers

By Nelson A. King

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