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The Caribbean island nation of Jamaica was a British colony between 1655 and 1962. More than 300 years of British rule changed the face of the island considerably (having previously been under Spanish rule, which depopulated the indigenous Arawak and Taino communities [6]) – and 92.1% of Jamaicans are descended from sub-Saharan Africans who were brought over during the Atlantic slave trade. [6]
When he was 3 months old, they went back to Jamaica. [1] He grew up in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. His father, a sound system operator, moved from Jamaica and to the UK back and forth all through Gregory’s childhood, with Gregory sometimes living with friends. "There are people who feel like me nuh know or understand certain things because there ...
Ty Cobb as a ball-playing bank clerk in a story by Grantland Rice. Baseball Madness: 1917 Comedy A silent film starring Gloria Swanson. The Busher: 1919 Comedy Small-town ballplayer gets a big head after joining the St. Paul Pink Sox. Headin' Home: 1920 Biographical A silent film about young Babe Ruth, who stars as himself. Life's Greatest Game ...
Co-founder of the first black British glossy magazine, Root [19] [20] Val McCalla (died 2002), accountant and media entrepreneur. He was the founder of The Voice, a British weekly newspaper aimed at the Britain's black community; Pat McGrath (born 1965), founder of Pat McGrath Labs which has an estimated value of $1 billion
The film had total domestic earnings of $68,856,263 in the United States and Canada, and $86,000,000 internationally for a total of $154,856,263 worldwide. [2] The film was popular in Germany (with a gross over $12 million), Japan (over $7 million) and the United Kingdom (over $8 million). [14] [15] [16] The film grossed $416,771 in Jamaica.
Passionate Summer is a 1958 British drama film directed by Rudolph Cartier and starring Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and Yvonne Mitchell. [2] It is also known by the alternative title Storm Over Jamaica. It was based on a best-selling 1949 novel by Richard Mason called The Shadow and the Peak. [3]
Evan Jones was born on 29 December 1927 in Portland, Jamaica, the son of a Fred M. Jones, a farmer, and Gladys, a Quaker missionary and teacher. One of seven children, Jones grew up in rural Jamaica and was educated locally, then at the prestigious boarding school Munro College, and subsequently attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania.