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JAMAICAN GANGSTER: Jim Brown — The Rise of the Don Dadda and the Mystery of Cell 4
Lester Lloyd Coke — known as Jim Brown — was the most powerful gang don Jamaica ever produced. From the bullet-riddled streets of Denham Town to the …
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Reggae Dancehall Pioneers: King Edwards | The Third Giant of the Original Sound System Trinity
Before the recording studios. Before the international labels. Before the world knew what Jamaica was capable of — three men were running speaker sys…
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Reggae Dancehall Pioneers: The Skatalites | Don Drummond, Jackie Mittoo & The All-Star Band That Built Ska
The full story of The Skatalites — the Jamaican instrumental supergroup that invented ska. From the Alpha Boys' School alumni who formed its core, to…
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The Slave Who Called Himself Governor. The Dutch Had to Write Back. | History of the Caribbean
In February of 1763, an enslaved Akan man named Cuffy led the largest slave revolt in Dutch colonial history — and then formally proposed splitting t…
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The Woman History Forgot: Nanny Grigg & Bussa's 1816 Rebellion
Easter Sunday, 1816. Barbados. Thousands of enslaved people rose up and burned the cane fields — and the woman who told them why they had to do it ha…
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Reggae Dancehall Pioneers: Toots & The Maytals | The Man Who Named Reggae
The definitive story of Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert — the man who named reggae, sang like Otis Redding, and spent 50 years in the shadow of an icon h…
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She Burned the Plantation Down. Denmark Never Let Her Go.
In October 1878, three women known as the Fire Queens led 300 workers in burning 53 sugar estates across St. Croix in the Danish West Indies. The upr…
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JAMAICAN GANGSTER: Vivian Blake — The Mastermind Behind the Global Shower Posse Empire
He wasn't a gunman. He was an architect. In 1973, seventeen-year-old Vivian Blake boarded a plane to New York as part of a Jamaican cricket team tour…
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Reggae Dancehall Pioneers: Clement "Coxsone" Dodd | Studio One, The Downbeat Sound & The Blueprint of Jamaican Music
He built the most important recording studio in Jamaican music history. He recorded The Wailers, The Skatalites, Burning Spear, Dennis Brown, and hun…
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JAMAICAN GANGSTER: Zeeks — The King of Matthews Lane and the Downtown Lockdown
In September 1998, the streets of downtown Kingston were on fire. Tires burned. Guns fired into the air. Four people died. And the entire Jamaican se…
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