Click here to add text.Robert Nesta Marley was born February 6th, 1945 in Nine Miles, St. Ann's on the north coast of Jamaica. His father Captain Norval Marley,was a white Jamaican attached to the British West Indian Regiment. His mother Cedella read more...
Karin Taylor has made quite a name for herself. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Karin grew up in Orlando, Florida, where she got her start as a performer at Disney's Magic Kingdom. She was discovered by the Ford Modeling Agency at the age of 18 read more..
Colin Powell, United States military leader. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell was born on April 5th, 1937 in New York City and attended City College of New York as a cadet in the Reserve Officers Training Corps.
He was nicknamed "Dumbo the Elephant" because of his large ears by his soccer playing friend Crack Skull who also introduced Elephant to the music business in 1991.
Acclaimed actor Sidney Poitier was born in Florida of Bahamian parents, and studied acting at the American Negro Theater in New York in the late 1940's. read more...
Kwame Ture was born Stokely Carmichael on June 29, 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the son of Adolphus and Mabel Carmichael. He immigrated to the United States in 1952 read more...
Haiti's finest export may also be its best ambassador. This year Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon begins her third season on 20th Century Fox's "NYPD Blue" as a series regular. She plays Valerie Haywood read more...
One of the most important personalities in Hip-Hop music, Wyclef Jean was born in La Plaine, Haiti and moved to the US at the age of 10. He first entered the spotlight in 1993 with the release of the Fugees debut LP, Blunted On Reality. The groups name was inspired by the plight of refugees from Haiti read more...
Louis Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott in May of 1933. Young Louis was the good son of Caribbean immigrants, living in depression era New York. His family moved to a West Indian enclave in Boston, where he grew-up as an Episcopal choir boy, honors student, and talented musician read more...
