After 300 years of British colonization, the island of Jamaica became an independent nation and member of the British Commonwealth in 1962. But while independence meant the country could elect its ...

The call for reparations is being sounded beyond the U.S., with activists and political leaders demanding accountability for slavery and colonization of their countries. In Jamaica, which became a ...

The National Library of Jamaica houses a treasure trove of over twenty thousand maps and plans that together are known as the Estate Maps of Jamaica, 1655-1890. These documents represent an important ...

It is now 51 years since Jamaica had to its Independence, however, it is like a baby whose umbilical cord was never severed at birth. The baby grows up, underdeveloped with limited mobility ...

African and African American Studies professor and renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid presented a lecture about colonization and land use to affiliates at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on ...

For centuries, Caribbean people fought for liberation from slavery and colonization. Today, amid new calls for the UK to tackle systemic racism and reckon with the crimes of the British Empire ...

By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega As King Charles III put on the centuries-old St. Edward’s crown on Saturday, Jamaica, a Commonwealth member, continued to move ahead with plans to cut ties with the ...