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I’m proud to share that What My Mother Told Me will screen at @BFI this May!
Featuring @andoh_adjoa, Leonie Forbes, @clarencesmiff, and @nadinewilliams .
#IndependentFilm
I could never have dreamed that, years after meeting Horace Ové at the BBC, I’d be introducing his groundbreaking film Pressure at TIFF in Toronto!
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🎬 Windrush Int. Caribbean Film Festival ✨
Hero film, a must-see. Honouring Filmaker & Producer @FrancesAnne @CaribbeanTales_ ...
We are so excited to announce our 2026 Program! Join us! - More in-person screenings and our virtual conversation series will be announced soon.francesannes-newsletter.beeh…
Show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name now goodlawproject.org/s/c9c589
CaribbeanTales Launches Windrush International Caribbean Film Festival Across Four Continents francesannes-newsletter.beeh…
The hypocrisy is blinding, though. We turn away starving Haitian refugees fleeing a crisis, but the minute Washington asks to house 10,000 third-country nationals, suddenly 'incapacity' vanishes?
A diplomatic note from the United States Embassy in Kingston has stated that a Cabinet minister proposed a controversial deal to Washington that would have had Jamaica “receive” up to 10,000 third-country nationals.
Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/… #GLNRToday
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It's estimated that around 90,000 children were left behind in the Caribbean by their parents in the 1940s and 1950s and they later became known as 'barrel children', due to the 'barrel' care packages that were sent back to them. #barrelchildren #windrush78 #migrationstories
Puerto Rico has been left broken, on purpose, by people who could fix it in a season if they wanted to.
Ireland just ended visa-free access for St. Kitts, St. Lucia, and Nicaragua, effective yesterday. First the UK. Now Ireland.
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Did you know? 📸
Neil Kenlock arrived in Britain from Jamaica at just 13 years old — and went on to become one of the most important visual chroniclers of Black British life.
In 1979 he co-founded ROOT magazine — the first glossy lifestyle publication aimed at Black British readers. Then in 1990 he helped launch he legendary Choice FM - the UK's first 24-hour licensed Black music radio station.
➡️ Read more about him and other trailblazers in the Windrush issue of the Voice Newspaper.
🔗Link in bio.
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Now that we’re talking about Cabo Verde, let me interest you once again in one of the country’s prominent anticolonialists 👇🏾
I had the privilege of directing Miss Lee in What My Mother Told Me, and I want to tell you there are actors, and then there is Leonie Forbes. She is a Caribbean legend
Leonie Forbes (14 Jun 1937 - 25 Oct 2022), Legendary #Jamaican actress, broadcaster, and producer, born 89 years ago today, in #Kingston. #Jamaica #Caribbean
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonie…
I am so excited to be hosting one of the only festivals this year that is bringing the Caribbean region and its diaspora into the same room, at the same time, on the same screen.
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@IngridPersaud 's Love songs of Boysie Singh as well as her Love after Love
@AndreBagoo 's short story collection The Dreaming, and if you're up for essays: Undiscovered Country
Barbara Jenkins' de Rightest Place
Scott Ting-aKee (chinese-Guyanese) for his cool novella
And I'll be honest, a lot of these Caribbean reading lists look like they were curated by the same three people. I want more diversity, looking for recommendations
