Caribbean History
Mosiah: “Before Malcolm. Before Martin. There was Marcus Mosiah Garvey.”
“They weren’t asking me about filmmaking. They were asking me about real problems that our people are facing.” Samuel Lee Fudge
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A different relationship with healing than most of us were taught
“Nourishment is not a reward for surviving. It is the practice that makes surviving possible.”
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Why Caribbean healing doesn’t follow January 1st rules
“Caribbean healing moves like island time; it happens when it’s supposed to happen.”
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Why I stopped apologizing for speaking Patois
“Mi stop seh sorry fi di language weh raise mi. If everybody else can love our Patois, why we cyaan love it too?”
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Who was here first, and why haven’t we been taught that?
“To Africans, the Americas weren’t new, we were already there.”
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Therapy isn’t the only way: Ancestral healing tools we already have
“No one called it ‘group therapy,’ but that kitchen table, covered in flour dust and green seasoning, holds space for truth.”
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The three Ds of Caribbean history: deny, diminish, distort Part I
BY DESMOND BOLLERS A wise person once said, “The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and
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The importance of controlling the narrative Part II
BY DESMOND BOLLERS It is not by accident that the stories of our ancestors’ bids for freedom are not well
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The importance of controlling the narrative Part I
BY DESMOND BOLLERS History is commonly defined as the chronological record of events (as affecting a nation or people) and
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An alternative approach to examining and studying Caribbean history part II
BY DESMOND BOLLERS The narrative appears to suggest that the Tainos and Kalinago simply wilted and capitulated without a fight.
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