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Watch Me Now: New Caribbean Cinema’s ‘Ring Di Alarm’ In NYC
November 13, 2012
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Fresh off the success of their debut feature Better Mus’ Come, the crew of emerging filmmakers known as New Caribbean Cinema are back with a new feature, Ring Di Alarm. Described as Tales From The Hood meets the Caribbean, Ring Di Alarm collects seven short films from the six up-and-coming directors that make up the NCC collective: Better Mus’ Come director Storm Saulter, Michelle Serieux, Joel Burke, Nile Saulter, Michael “Ras Tingle” Tingling and Kyle Chin.
Caribbean Roots: Malcolm X
May 19, 2010
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Posted by Martei Korley
May 19th marks the 85th birthday of Malcolm X or El-Haj Malik El-Shabazz. In years bygone that meant that all of the mom and pops stores on 125th Street in Harlem would close up shop at midday in honor of the leader and human rights activist. As the memory of Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X”(1992) faded, so did the re-surge in activism and by the early 2000s most of the shops only locked up at three pm. Since then big business have closed down many family owned businesses on Harlem’s main street, now renamed Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Among the new eateries which have sprung up on ‘two-fifth’; several are Caribbean with names like Uptown Juice Bar, MoBay, Golden Crust.
