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• Clear Marcus Garvey's Name

  
  
  Miami, May 30, 2011 - A group of artists across North America, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean have created an online petition to request a full pardon for Marcus Garvey, founder of the UNIA, and a national hero [...]
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• Happy Memorial Day (2011)

  
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• 2011 FIU/Books & Books International Writers Conference--Grand Cayman

  
  2011 FIU/Books & Books International Writers Conference--Grand Cayman
  Co-sponsored by FIU's MFA Program in Creative Writing and Books & Books, along with Camana Bay, Sunshine Suites Resort, Cayman Airways & the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism.
  Co-Directors:  Mitchell Kaplan, Books & Books; Les Standiford, Director of [...]
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• Petition: Clear Marcus Garvey's Name

  
  
  
  
  In commemoration of Caribbean-American Heritage Month, a group of artists, writers, and concerned citizens has created an online petition to request a full pardon for Marcus Garvey, founder of the UNIA, and a national hero of Jamaica. The [...]
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• "Miss Sally on Politics" by Shara McCallum

  Miss Sally on Politics
  
  He is a one-eye man
  in a blind-eye country.
  
  But how him can do better
  when no one want to see
  
  what going on. Every time
  party man come around
  
  him jumping up and down—
  lickle puppy eager fi please.
  
  Him [...]

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• Book Review: The Frock & Other Poems by Laurelle “Yaya” Richards

  
  The Frock & Other Poems by Laurelle “Yaya” Richards
  Nature is not Innocent in the St. Martin Yard of Yaya Richards
  Review by Alex Richards.The Frock & Other Poems by Laurelle “Yaya” Richards celebrates her memory, her words, her thoughts, the sentiments and feelings that drove her actions in [...]
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• New Book: The Ladies are Upstairs by Merle Collins

  
  From the 1930s to the new century, Doux Thibaut, one of Merle Collins’ most memorable characters, negotiates a hard life on the Caribbean island of Paz. As a child there is the shame of poverty and illegitimacy, and there are the hazards of sectarianism in an [...]
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• Derek Walcott Keynote Speaker: 9th Annual St. Martin Book Fair

  
  
  Source: House of Nehesi Publishers
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  Nobel Prize laureate Derek Walcott is the  confirmed keynote speaker for the 9th annual St. Martin Book Fair, June 2 - 4, 2011..
  
  “Freedom of Expression” is the theme of the three-day fair that [...]
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• New Book: The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives

  
  The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives
  
  The short story has been integral to the development of Caribbean literature, and continues to offer possibilities for invention and reinvigoration. As the most comprehensive study of its kind, this important and timely volume explores the significance of [...]
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• New Book: Una Marson: Selected Poems

  
  Una Marson: Selected Poems
  Una Marson is widely recognised as ‘the earliest female poet of significance to emerge in West Indian literature’, but whilst her role as an early feminist and a ‘first woman’ publisher, broadcaster, pan-Africanist and anti-racist features on many web pages, her poetry [...]
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