United States

Embark, Food and Cuisine, People, United States, Barbados

Bright lights, big city, hot sauce: Paul Carmichael

It’s early evening in New York City, and you’re in a buzzing restaurant with friends for an informal dinner. As you sip your ginga...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, United States

Missing Ravi Coltrane

I left Trinidad for New York early one summer Sunday morning, warnings reverberating in my head. I’d been admonished not to venture...

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Embark, Culture, Food and Cuisine, United States, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean cooking for the future

I was having a conversation with a chef about home baking, and just as we reached the part about the amazing smell that fills the house,...

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Engage, Culture, History, United States

The Amistad trial: a case for freedom

On 19 September, 1839 — 175 years ago — Judge Smith Thompson opened proceedings at the circuit court in Hartford, Connecticut. This was...

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Embark, Festivals and Events, Food and Cuisine, Sports, Aruba, Bonaire, Puerto Rico, United States, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean Datebook (September/October 2014)

New York Breakaway on the parkway You live in North America, but didn’t make it back to the Caribbean for any of this year’s Carnivals?...

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Literature, Reviews, History, Dominican Republic, United States

Tough Love: Drown by Junot Diaz

All big cities have their distinct immigrant districts, but New York’s Washington Heights, at the northern tip of Manhattan, is more...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, United States, Caribbean Diaspora

D.C. on my mind

It’s difficult to put your finger on it, but there is something about Washington, D.C. that holds you by the scruff of your neck and...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, United States

Miami: SoBe Exciting

A phalanx of tall hotels seems to bunch right up against the golden shoreline, a glass wall of hospitality suites, running north as far as...

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