SPECIAL ‘NUFF ISSUE! THREE BIG INTERVIEWS! Sister Carol ...... 1 Dispelling Myths ...... 3 Recipe Corner ...... 6 Winter Shinehead ...... 1 Author Interview ...... 4 Back a Yard ...... 7 2004 Third World ...... 2 Make a Difference ...... 5 Community Remembers . . 8 2003 Carifete ...... 2 TRB Awards ...... 5 Community Organizations 8 Mi Luv Patios ...... 2 Yardie Deh ‘Bout ...... 6 AN INTERVIEW WITH SISTER CAROL Sister Carol is a Kingston being an ambassador for the music? native, who has succeeded in SC: I am very proud of my heritage. a musical genre that is wildly JD: The style of reggae has made numerous dominated my male transitions i.e. 70’s classic to modern . performers. Such paths lead How do you feel about these transitions? her to a Grammy nomination for the 1996 release Lyrical SC: Change is a must. I don’t mind dancehall as Potent. This multi-talented long as the lyrics are conscious, uplift and artist has also appeared in two of educate not denigrate. Dancehall is more movies Something Wild and Married to the mob. popular among the youth, so it’s is very She has toured the world several times over and was important to promote positive vibes, while the familiar voice behind Night Music with David entertaining. Sandborn as the mc. In 1999, Tuff Gong, The label JD: Many people wear dreads but do not practice started by ’s very own Bob Marley released the Rastafarian faith, are you a Rasta? Isis-the Original Womb-man. SC: I am a true Rasta to the bone; Rasta is about JD: In a lot of your songs, you talk about female peace and love. empowerment. Who are some of your musical JD: What style of reggae do you prefer? influences? SC: Roots music SC: I’m influenced by a lot of artist but I really Sister Carol’s latest release is Empressive. Visit her web like Nina Simone, I-trees and Artan Ellis. site at www.sistacarol.com. Add this release to her JD: Jamaica is the birthplace of reggae but it is now eight albums, dozens of singles and it is clear that this an international phenomena. How do you feel about Sista is an artist to contend with now and for the future. AN INTERVIEW WITH SHINEHEAD Shinehead began his SH: When an entire family can tell me they artistic career via drove from Chicago IL to Tallahassee FL dance hall sound looking for Shinehead material that says it all. systems of . JD: Where do you find inspiration fro your lyrics? Whether Shinehead is SH: I find them from my own life, other people’s toasting, crooning or life. flat-out rapping, he always balanced his JD: In the documentary “The history of reggae”, material between the you stated that your style was a fusion of hip-hop positive and socially and reggae. Do you find that to be the trend for conscious with more Jamaican artist living outside “yard”? lighthearted sentiments. His songs and live SH: Not necessarily. Yuh fin seh yardies been performances are generously seasoned with high doing it before meh born. Meh jus duh it betta ... energy, humor, common sense, harsh reality, socio- Ha Ha economic commentary and matters of the heart. JD: Why do you feel Jamaican culture is so popular Add in Shinehead’s stage presence and this is a at this particular time? memorable act to watch. SH: Well, the only thing can come mind is the JD: In what way do you feel that you have made an reggae music. It’s like the music of King David, impact in your profession? which is like songs of Psalms.

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INTERVIEW WITH THIRD WORLD MI LUV DE PATIOS YUH SI Third World is more than a Things my mother taught me that only a yardy can reggae band it is an understand: institution. This institution stands for producing and ¥ My mother taught the VALUE OF EDUCATION. “If yuh no go a school, yuh a go tun tief or walk an’ pick up performing music that, bottle”. while holding firm to the ¥ My mother taught me HUMOR. “If yuh nuh eat food, cultural and ancestral roots breeze a go blow yuh wa” of its’ members, still ¥ My mother taught me JUSTICE. “One day when yuh have pushes forward the cutting edge of reggae. It is a group whose pickney an dem treat yuh same way. themes are positive, progressive and internationally relevant. Jamaican Diaspora had a chance to speak to Bunny Rugs, who is Why Jamaican people are different ... the lead vocal for the group. Mi deh yah ah tink and realize seh, dere are sometings yuh JD: One of the group’s trademark songs is “Reggae ambassador”. woulda neva see we a do, hear we ah seh or even attempt fi Being a reggae artist, what do you think should be your try. Tek fir instance... responsibility? ¥ Yuh eva see Jamaicans a climb mountain wid flag and claim victory when dem reach di top? Yuh ever see weh ah BR: To take Jamaican music and its message of peace, love, hang out inna di miggle of di Amazon jungle? Fi wa harmony around the world. reason? JD: Reggae had made many changes in style. I.e. 70’s classic to ¥ Yuh ever see weh a jump outta plane wid one parachute or current Dancehall How would you categorize the Third World’s a boast seh we going bungee jumping next Sunday? music? ¥ Yuh eva see weh inna sea bout we looking fi di great white BR: We have the Third World style. Every group has their sharks? No sah, we wi watch it pon TV. own way of sending out their message. Our music is a fusion ¥ Yuh eva hear weh in ah search & rescue pan mountain? A of African and Caribbean sounds. mi sen dem up mountain? If dem find dem way up, dem fe find dem way dung again. Idiat dem! A nature way fe JD: How long have you been with the band? feed de weak and any hungry animal up deh! BR: 28 of the 30 years ¥ Yuh eva see a Jamaican man acting pon big screen going JD: Who are your musical influences? inna haunted house and asking..."Trevah yuh in deh?" If him foolish enuf fi go ina di haunted house him an di BR: Nat King Cole Gregory Isaacs and many more duppy dem caang fight it out in deh. JD: How many albums have the group produced? ¥ Yuh eva hear a Jamaican man seh.."no honey...no need fe BR: 20 albums and our latest is “Ain’t Giving Up” cook rice and peas wid oxtail and a little chicken pon a To learn more about the band, visit their web page at Sunday ... mek we order in a pizza nuh?" Try yu best ... not www.thirdworldband.com pon yuh life. CHICAGO CAR FETE 2003 On behalf of the Jamaican car fête group, I would like to thank everybody for their support, donations and time to make our endeavor a success. We look forward to the year 2004 when the Car Fête group will do this again in a better and bigger way. We truly appreciate your continued support. To contact us, please send correspondence to: Jamaican Car Fête Group, P.O. Box 283, Dolton, IL 60419, USA Errol Willock, President of the Jamaican car fête Group Special thanks to the following: Beulah Henry Fred Baker Bill Harvey Jamaica Tourist Board Blossom Musicians Calvin Boswell Solomon Flowers Desmond and Joy Pompi Valerie Richards Donna 1 and Donna 2

The Jamaican Diaspora is a publication of JK Productions – Chicago, Illinois di¥as¥po¥ra: n. 1. Dispersion of people from their original homeland 2. The community formed by such a people RASTAFARI: FULFILLING THE MISSION, DISPELLING THE MYTHS Are you one among many who have biased The Light in Marley’s Eyes opinions about Rastafarians? Do you think they Emperor Haile Selassie I, the 225th King of Kings and Lord of are a are a “drug cult” or a group of ganja smoking Lords was the Light in Marley’s eyes and the heartbeat in dreadlocks without a theology who either love to Marley’s music. Though millions in the world love and admired listen to reggae music or who are reggae musicians. If you feel Marley, they knew nothing about the God-King that Marley that Rastafarians are a cultural rather than a spiritual group, worshiped. As a musical prophet, Marley an instrument used by you’re not alone, many people who see us through the eyes of JAH (God) to plant the Seed of Rastafari in the hearts and minds European or western media along with members from the of millions of people throughout the world. world’s established religions are biased towards Rastafarians, The Mystic Path of Rastafari because we embrace an African-centered, rather than Euro- centered view of spirituality or religion. As for our spiritual way of life: We affirm (know) that the Messiah’s Home is in Judah (Ethiopia), and that Ethiopia/Judah- Many people are unaware of Rastafarian history; they know Kush is the geographical location of the Garden of Eden in the about Bob Marley, but nothing about the God that Marley Bible. We affirm that there is Only One God and One Truth embraced as his religious way of life and worshiped in his music. Spoken in Many Different Languages … and that God Lives and Just as many are unaware that in the beginning of the Rastafarian Life is Eternal Movement (early 1930’s), Rastafarians were brutally persecuted and imprisoned and many also lost their lives for daring to In My Father’s House There are Many Mansions proclaim the Divinity of His Imperial Majesty, not for farming, Lastly, there are many Houses/Mansions of Rastafari…though selling or smoking ganja. each House differs slightly in ritual, all Houses embrace the In all due respect, true-to-form- Rastafarians are to be considered Monophysite Doctrine (God-Manifest-in-flesh). The main the same as other spiritually enlighten traditional people Houses are Nyabinghi, Twelve Tribes and Bubba Dread -- and of throughout the world, such as the Yogi’s, Rabbi’s, Imam’s, Priests course there are many of us who do not belong to any House, but and Ministers…to say anything about us (Rastafarians) is we respect Nyabinghi, which is the strict Orthodox Order of nothing less but religious discrimination -- the only difference Rastafari. Due to the spiritual work of musical prophet Bob between African-centered Rastafarians and Euro-centric Nesta Marley, members of the Spiritual Movement of Rastafari Christians, is that Rastafarians embrace the Black Ethiopian are found in every corner of the globe, from Africa to Europe and Messiah, while they embrace the European Messiah. While from the Americas to the Caribbean and the South Pacific Europe and the west are waiting for their Messiah to return, we Islands. say “He came, but you missed H.I.M.” We know that if Emperor Rastafari Ð The African-centered Religion/Way of Life Haile Selassie I was born in England with blond hair and blue The seed was planted long ago and today, the people are ripe for eyes, and had he inherited the Throne of David and the Divine what of knowledge. Today, educational television programs, Titles (King of Kings, Lord of Lords) and was from the such as Discovery Channel and PBS are reporting how Christ and Solomonic bloodline, there would have been no doubt who He Is. Eve of the Bible were Black. If we take away the issue of ganja Those Who Wear the Crown from the Rastafarian Movement, one can see that the only issue We wear our Crown (locks) embrace the doctrine of the that Europe and the west have with Rastafarians is that we Ethiopian Monophysite (God-Manifest-in-flesh) because we embrace the Black Ethiopian Messiah, rather than the white know that His Majesty was the spiritual embodiment of the man European Messiah, in accordance with the Bible that states that they call Christ in this time. We know this because His Majesty the Messiah had hair like lambs wool and feet the color of brass, fulfilled Revelations from 1935-1941 (Rev 19:11), and he is a which point to a man of African, rather than European descent.. descent of King David, King Solomon, the Queen of Sheba and Hopefully, the above information will at the very least help to the man they call Christ, all are in His Majesty’s family tree. His dispel some of the myths and misconceptions associated to Majesty also inherited the throne of King David on November 2, Rastafari, and in so doing, foster a greater appreciation and 1930, along with the divine titles “King of King, Lord of Lords,” respect for knowledge and our Spiritual Way of Life. in accordance with bible prophecy (Acts 2:13; and Imani Kali-Nyah is a writer, author, investigative-researcher, Rev19:11)..these are facts, not mere conjecture by Rastafarians. historian, lecturer and television produce; she is recognized Locks were worn by Ethiopian-Egyptian God-Kings and Priest- internationally for resurrecting the issue of The Ethiopian Kings thousands of years before the bible was written. In biblical Holocaust 1935-1941. She has a BA in Mass Communications times, locks were worn by those who had taken the Oath of the from Chicago State University and is Chair & CEO of ROOTS Nazarite (Hebrews 7). Today this timeless tradition is maintained International Arts Alliance, The Ethiopian Holocaust by Ethiopian monks and Rastafarians. Remembrance Committee and the Association of Rastafarian Theologians. For more information call 312-225-6000.

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in a climactic cloudburst. Every book I've BOOKS Ð A REFLECTION written, I believe, is based on my love for Anthony Winkler has captured the essence of Jamaica and Jamaicans, and if there was a Jamaican culture in his books and films. “Going departure from this principle in Going Home Home To Teach” is an autobiographical body of to Teach, it was a result of the bitter anger I work, which flashes back to the Jamaica of the felt then about the racial chauvinism of the authors childhood, recounts incidents and 1970s that rejected me because I'm white. vignettes that sheds light on the ever changing Now that I am older (but no wiser), I no longer feel that political climate of the island. bitterness: I say to myself, I am white and Jamaican, and he What inspired you to write, "Going Home to Teach"? (or she) who doesn't like that can stick it where the monkey stuck the ... There was no particular moment of inspiration. I began the book sometime after I had finished The Lunatic. At that time By the end of the book, we learn how the headmaster’s rather than an inspiration I was driven by an ambition—to gatekeeper attitude impacted you and the students in a brash tell the story of the year 1975-1976 I had spent in Jamaica manner. People want to help their fellow man but bad minded teaching at Moneague Teachers College during a tumultuous souls are often a road block to progress. Do you think that’s why time in Jamaican history. I thought I knew something about individuals who are altruistic are hard to find? us and the forces that had made us what we had become, and I don't know. I've always had the feeling that the philosopher I wanted to share my vision with other Jamaicans. I also who said, "No man does evil knowingly"—I believe it was wanted to explain what I was and how I had gotten to be that Plato—might actually be right. I do not believe anyone way. As a white Jamaican I felt I had a unique perspective to consciously starts out to commit wickedness without having contribute to a discussion of our identity, and I started out to some self-justifying motive. What is much more probable is unravel the separate strands of history—family, personal, that the evil -doer thinks his wickedness is a good even if his and national—and show how together they entwined to reasons are selfish. It is also my conviction that selfishness is create the individual soul that I am. This explanation sounds the one primal sin in the world and that all other sins are terribly anthropological and makes me seem more tributaries of it. As for being altruistic, one man's altruism is calculating than I really am. But in fact when I begin a book another man's egotism. After 61 years of life, what I've what I have in mind is little more than a smudge, a vague learned about this world is that things are seldom as simple speck on the horizon, and the finished product is more due to as they seem. my blundering back-and-forth rather than to any In your book, we learned that because of the political climate of preconceived idea of where I'm going. I almost never know the 70’s, the landowner Mr. Jameson decided to sell out and leave that. Often, I'm as surprised as the reader by the twists and Jamaica but eventually he wanted to come back. You left and turns a book might take, especially fiction; in Going Home to came back as well. What is the magic about Jamaica that creates Teach, because it is a true story, I was surprised not by its this bond to the island? outcome, but by the sociological and historical explanations I It's home—that's all the magic there is. It is where we drew stumbled upon as I wrote it. Writing is for me an exercise of our first breath, spoke our first word, felt the first pin prick the subconscious, and I always write better if I don't know of love. Old-time Jamaicans say you always yearn to go back what I'm trying to say until I've actually said it. to the place where your navel string is buried. They may well Maya Angelou has written several autobiographical books. In be right. each book, it depicts a significant era that changed her life as well Do you have any upcoming works? as what was happening at that period in time. Should your fans Sometime this fall MacMillan of England is releasing The anticipate other autobiographical pieces? Was writing this Annihilation of Fish and Other Short Stories. I also have two particular piece cathartic for you? completed novels that are scheduled to go into production My editor has always encouraged me to write my soon. What is most wonderful about what I do for living is autobiography, particularly the story of my family, which has that it is what I would be doing anyway even if I were not more than its share of eccentrics. An autobiography being paid for doing it. presumes that one has led an interesting life that people want to hear about, and every now and again I'm dogged by the Anthony Winkler’s Lunatic can be purchased at: feeling that that does not apply to me. Interestingly enough, Roadmaster International Records when I wrote Going Home to Teach I had same 629 1/2 Howard Street Evanston, IL squeamishness that I was presuming and had no authentic ¥ Jamaican movies in VHS and DVD format reason for writing that book. I do not know whether the act of writing Going Home to Teach was cathartic. If it was, the ¥ Caribbean, R&B and Hip-Hop music catharsis probably arrived via a dripping faucet rather than Small enough to know you and large enough to serve you.

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The Jamaican Diaspora is a publication of JK Productions – Chicago, Illinois di¥as¥po¥ra: n. 1. Dispersion of people from their original homeland 2. The community formed by such a people BACK A YARD MARKLAND TAYLOR’S ESSAY Physics has always been an import and part of Congratulations to Kerri Ann Palmer and Markland Taylor. Both science from the early centuries. Galileo Galilei, are students at the University of West Indies in Kingston Jamaica, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein are just a few of who entered the Jamaican American Club’s essay contest entitled the great minds that have contributed help to carve “My major at the university benefits the Jamaican community the pathway for modern science and its by…” They both got prize money, a Jamaican American Club’s applications. Electronics, which is a branch of this t-shirt and Robert Jackson’s Talking Bible CD. Here are the field, has clearly transformed our lives in every area. These two winning essays: branches of science are the gateway I have chosen; hence, they KERRI ÐANN PALMER’S ESSAY now constitute my major. All training that I have received towards my major can be passed All academic pursuits are important and vital to the development to my fellow Jamaicans. I could become a teacher I my field, of the individual studying and benefit the Jamaican society, if thereby aiding the development of the science inclined minds on what is learn is applied effectively in relevant the island or partake in various research projects. My forms to the Jamaican community. In my quest for contribution along with others in this area will foster the knowledge, I was lead to read for a degree in my development of a Jamaican Albert Einstein. Someday, this can major, English. This major is sometimes regarded happen. My major is in the field of electronics, which has as being not so challenging-as not really being contributed significantly in the communication sector. For scholarly. In spite of this perception, the positive impact it will example, mobile communication has increased exponentially the have on the nation are numerous. My major benefits the island. Jamaican community by promoting social cooperation. Electronics has brought everyone closer in the world. We can be It gives allowances for creative expression, critical analysis and in our homes and network with Jamaicans worldwide. enables the impartation of positive values and attitudes. Some of Information technology plays an important role in every country the professional arenas open to me by pursuing English are because a significant amount of foreign exchange can be Human Resource, Advertising and Teaching. Literary works are obtained utilizing this medium. Jamaica is now making representative of the society in which we live. Through books, provisions to branch out in this sector and reap the benefits. we travel globally and enter the minds and lives of the characters. Physics and electronics knowledge are beneficial to the Such intimacy with these personalities helps in giving me a better community. understanding of human nature. I can enter the Human Resource Electronics has no boundaries. How could one forget the field where I would respect the diversity of people with whom I conveniences this major has brought to our homes? It is associate and try to come up with strategies where we better constantly evolving and producing new ideas; therefore, new and work with each other, thereby improving worker productivity and improved gadgets will be developed and introduced for public the competitiveness of the organization. Whose success will consumption, hence making our lives easier. Overall, my major impact positively on the social and economic life of the Jamaican plays an important role in every sector of a modern and community. 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THE COMMUNITY REMEMBERS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS June Jordan June Jordan was born in Harlem NY The Ethiopian Holocaust July 9, 1936 to Jamaican P.O. Box 6515 immigrants. She was a professor of Chicago, IL 60680-6515 African Studies at the University of 312 225 6000 California at Berkley campus, author www.rootsinternational.net of 28 books, numerous essays and a recipient of many literary awards. America African Caribbean foundation Sadly, on June 14, 2002, this 708 717 5498 remarkable woman lost her 10 year 708 403 5498 - fax battle to breast cancer. Through her literary works and positive Jamaican American Club contributions, we will remember her. P.O. Box 62 Elk Grove, IL 60009-0062 Unfortunately this dreaded disease ranks second among the www.geocities.com/jamaicanamericanclub/island.html cause of caner deaths in Black women, according to ACS (American Cancer Society). For more information on breast Please let us help you let people know about YOUR cancer prevention, call toll free 800 ACS 2345 or visit non-profit organization! To be listed in this column, send www.cancer.org. your contact information to: [email protected] Listings are free of charge. Some restrictions may apply.

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