Juici Patties Hagley Park Road Begins Lunch Delivery

Posted on | March 27, 2012 | No Comments

Kingston, Jamaica

Juici Patties is a beloved Jamaican institution

Jamaica often emulates U.S. culture to a certain extent, for better or for worse. Now Juici Patties has  joined the lunch delivery market, a la United States, to cater to those business folks who have a limited time to eat. While this service is only available from the Kingston Hagley Park Road branch, it’s only a matter of time before it catches on around the island.  Read more... (203 words + 1 image)

CD Review: Midnite, Kings Bell

Posted on | March 4, 2012 | No Comments

IGrade Records, 2011

Unforgiving no-nonsense one-drop momentum densely textured brittle tattered breathless mannered chant seemingly featureless landscape of complex literate sound occasional snatches of melodic instrumental surprise challenging us at every turn themes from contemporary Kafka by way of Rastafarian James Joyce formidable ethereal earthiness leavened by horns organ synth keyboards yep this is definitely Midnite in fact 64 minutes of Midnite after which you may want to lighten up your evening by listening to Wagner’s complete Ring Cycle while reading War and Peace.

CD Review: Earl Zero, Marketplace

Posted on | March 4, 2012 | No Comments

Foreign Key Records, 2011

Earl Zero has been around the roots reggae scene a long time. That’s perhaps because he has the perfect voice for it: essentially soft and supple, therefore capable of the subtleties required of the genre, yet also expressive, carrying hints of both defiance and “sufferation.” Add to that Zero’s rhythmic sense and consistently clear enunciation and you’ve got a vocal performance you can take great pleasure in listening to. Of course, then you need to add the instrumentation, production and all that, and fortunately there’s lots of pleasure to be had there too.  Read more... (447 words + 1 image)

Brown Boy Blues

Posted on | February 29, 2012 | No Comments

(excerpted from the chapter in Authentic Blackness/”Real” Blackness: Essays on the Meaning of Blackness in Culture and Literature, ed. Martin Japtok & Jerry Rafiki (Peter Lang, 2011).)

“No one screams about Babylon more than a brown boy.”
(Participant in an on-line forum about Damian Marley & “brown boys” in Jamaican culture).  Read more... (4629 words)

Win Marley Children’s Book!

Posted on | January 20, 2012 | No Comments

Enter to win One Love, Adapted by Cedella Marley

Courtesy of Chronicle Books

Jahworks.org has 3 books to giveaway*

ONE LOVE, Adapted by Cedella Marley – Based on the song by Bob Marley
Illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton
10 x 9-5/8 in; 32 pp;
Guided Reading Level: G
Hardcover
Published in September, 2011
ISBN 9781452102245
ISBN10 1452102244  Read more... (199 words + 1 image)

Volunteer with us in Hagley Gap, Jamaica

Posted on | January 20, 2012 | No Comments

I am in Hagley Gap for another visit to our Blue Mountain Project programs. Besides the fact that it is nice to see a little warm sun in the midst of winter, it is also nice to have a welcome respite from the seemingly eternal US election campaigns. I realize that Jamaica is a tiny country when compared to the USA but they managed to elect a new leader and parliament and select a new cabinet in less than thirty days. We take two years to do the same thing.  Read more... (229 words)

On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison and Bob Marley

Posted on | December 31, 2011 | No Comments

Interview with author Gregory Stephens

“I don’t think enough people look at Bob Marley’s European audience and ask: what is that all about?” Gregory Stephens tells me one sunny day outside of his El Cerrito, California home, “And what does that mean about cultural ownership?”  Read more... (2793 words + 3 images)

Download DJ Green B’s Latest Mix for Free

Posted on | December 30, 2011 | No Comments

The Female DJ Represents for the Ladies

Selecta Green B

Bay-Area based DJ, Green B, has recently released her latest mix as part of her Hot Gyal Promotions Series, 4.2. The female selector is part of the Coo-Yah! Ladeez Sound, who play every Wednesday night in San Francisco. Hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, Selecta Green B is part of a greater movement of females who have been getting involved in all aspects of the male-dominated reggae landscape.  Read more... (118 words + 2 images)