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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · 3d

Link to the episode from our Lest We Forget history podcast

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Reclaiming the Legacy of Francis Williams — Tenement Yaad Media

In a special episode written by Dr. Fara Dabhoiwala, professor of history at Princeton University, we tell the story of Francis Williams, a formerly enslaved Black Jamaican who was among the leading i...

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · 3d

In a special episode written by Dr. Fara Dabhoiwala, professor of history at Princeton, we tell the story of Francis Williams, a formerly enslaved Black Jamaican who was among the leading intellectuals of the 1700s & the painting that exposed the racist conspiracy against him & the entire Black race

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · 6d

Link to Keenan's full review of the recently awarded CARICON Prize novel

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A House for Miss Pauline — Tenement Yaad Media

Keenan Falconer reviews the CARICON Prize for Fiction awarded novel, A House for Miss Pauline written by Diana McCaulay. The novel tells the story of a 99-year-old Rastafari woman reckoning with her p...

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · 6d

“It has certainly merited its place among contemporary Jamaican classics that will be remembered in the newly defined literary scene of the 21st century”, writes Keenan Falconer in his review of @dmccaulay.bsky.social's most recent novel, A House for Miss Pauline

Full review on our website

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · 12d

No problem. He has noted the request and will submit an updated review to be back on our website shortly.

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · 12d

Thanks for the insight. We will take it down and definitely let him know.

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · 27d

In a new Tenants’ article, JamaicanLabrat parallels the Philippines to examine how online bullying by loyalists of political parties in Jamaica became a political tactic in the island's recently concluded general election

Trolling for Democracy: A Slippery Slope — Tenement Yaad Media

… a concerning trend has been arising, where the party messaging deteriorates into personal insults and the campaign material is replaced with inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments.

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Sep 12

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Aug 31

As a new school year gets underway, The Yaad tells the story of why Jamaica's fame "bulla & pink milk", as we know it, was discontinued in the nation's public schools.

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Aug 27

For persons with hearing disabilities or those who just don't like podcasts, a written version for the latest episode of our Checkmate political podcast is now out on our website

Jamaica’s 2025 General Election: The Seats To Watch (Transcript) — Tenement Yaad Media

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Aug 24

Listen a clip from the latest episode from our Checkmate Political Podcast

Here, one of the host of the podcast, Keenan Falconer, breaks down the history of one of the most historically competitive constituency seats in Jamaica - St. Andrew Eastern

Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Aug 20

On this new episode of the Checkmate political podcast, our host Keenan Falconer is flying solo as he draws on statistical data & political history to discuss the six seats most likely to be the most competitive in Jamaica's upcoming general election

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Aug 6

Did you know the first Black woman to wear an afro at a global beauty pageant was Jamaican?

At the 1972 Miss Universe competition, Marilyn Wright, a then physiotherapy student at Howard University, represented Jamaica while wearing the hairstyle

Check out our video to learn more

Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Aug 3

For persons with hearing disabilities or those who just don't like podcasts, the written version for this episode can be found here

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The Salt 'Plantations' of the Caribbean (Transcript) — Tenement Yaad Media

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Aug 3

Most scholarship on the enslavement of Black people in the Caribbean cover the sugar & tobacco industries. But there was another massive industry that was built upon the enslavement of Black people - Salt

Checkout our Lest We Forget episode to learn more

The Salt 'Plantations' of the Caribbean — Tenement Yaad Media

Most scholarship on Caribbean chattel slavery of enslaved Africans largely covers the sugar and tobacco plantation systems. However, there was another massive industry that was built upon the enslavem...

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Aug 1

In 1838, Jamaica & the other British colonies achieved complete Emancipation

Check out our Lest We Forget episode where we look at the almost 190 years debate on the necessity of commemorating the end of Black enslavement in the Anglophone Caribbean

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The Fight for the Emancipation Day Holiday in Jamaica — Tenement Yaad Media

Since August 1st, 1838, Jamaica, and the rest of the British West Indies, achieved emancipation. Since then, it has been ongoing debate on the necessity of commemorating the end of one of the most bru...

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Jul 21

Want to read more fictional works that explores colourism and texturism in the Caribbean region? We have updated our website to include a list of novels, and an acclaimed drama, that has these themes

Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Jul 13

Now out on our website

In this short story published in the Pepperpot Magazine in 1967, H.G. Shuttle Cock explores what happens when colourism and texturism meets the politics of beauty in 1960s Jamaica.

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Jul 13

Now out on our website

In this short story published in the Pepperpot Magazine in 1967, H.G. Shuttle Cock explores what happens when colourism and texturism meets the politics of beauty in 1960s Jamaica.

www.tenementyaadmedia.com/rewind/beaut...

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Jun 12

"... in Jamaica & the wider Caribbean, colonialism is not some distant force. It is recent, material, institutional & unique... it is not a metaphor. It is how our courts function, how our schools are structured, how land is distributed & how power moves"

Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Jun 9

In a new Tenants' article, Clifford James rebuts Dr. Diana Thorburn's article, 'History as a Given'.

As Clifford writes, "When we say 'history as a given' we imply it has been accounted for, that it is settled - but history is not background music."

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Susan Goffe @susangoffe.bsky.social · Jun 10

Definitely worth reading...

Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Jun 9

In a new Tenants' article, Clifford James rebuts Dr. Diana Thorburn's article, 'History as a Given'.

As Clifford writes, "When we say 'history as a given' we imply it has been accounted for, that it is settled - but history is not background music."

www.tenementyaadmedia.com/tenants/hist...

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Jun 9

In a new Tenants' article, Clifford James rebuts Dr. Diana Thorburn's article, 'History as a Given'.

As Clifford writes, "When we say 'history as a given' we imply it has been accounted for, that it is settled - but history is not background music."

www.tenementyaadmedia.com/tenants/hist...

Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · Jun 3

A history of Jamaica told entirely through dancehall music:

"... maybe 10 years ago, 5 years even, before Freaky Gyal Part 1, dancehall & Jamaican society, had an entirely different view of oral sex. As such, to understand how this audacious song upended the nation, one has to go back to 1990"

Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · May 22

Sidewalk is an upcoming video essay series that explores Jamaican society through the arts. The Yaad is pleased to present the podcast version of their first project - Oral Sex As Told By Dancehall - which examines the history of oral sex discourse in Jamaican society through dancehall music

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · May 31

Check out this episode of our Lest We Forget History Podcast where we looked at the origins of the Chinese Jamaican community & the discrimination they faced, ultimately leading to the anti-Chinese riots of 1918, 1938 & 1965

A written version is available

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Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · May 27

T.O.K.'s "Chi Chi Man" has quite the history in Jamaican politics. In the early 2000's, it was used as a campaign song by a major political party. We explained this history on our Lest We Forget episode, "Homosexuality In The Jamaican Police Force"

From the podcast transcript:

Tenement Yaad Media @tenementyaadmedia.com · May 22

Podcast version can be found on the Lest We Forget Podcast feed, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Oral Sex As Told by Dancehall by Lest We Forget

Sidewalk is an upcoming video essay series that explores shifting discourse in Jamaica's society through the arts. Lest We Forget is pleased to present the podcast version of their first project - Ora...

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