Why Cuba Is Making Its Own COVID Vaccine : Goats and Soda : NPR

The island nation is going it alone. No contracts with big drug makers, no support from WHO’s vaccine program. If successful, Cuba will be the first producer of a vaccine in Latin America. — Read on http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/25/980789381/cubas-revolutionary-dream-making-its-own-covid-vaccine

Prince & The New Power Generation – My Name Is Prince (Official Music Video) – YouTube

“My Name Is Prince” from ‘Love Symbol’ (1992) ☔️ Listen to more Prince here https://lnk.to/PrinceStream 📺 Watch all the official Prince videos here http://b… — Read on m.youtube.com/watch

Diggstown, John Walker documentary and Bone Cage among 2021 Canadian Screen Awards nominees | Local-Lifestyles | Lifestyles | The Chronicle Herald

Halifax-shot legal drama Diggstown, John Walker’s documentary about some of the worst aspects of human nature, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and cross-Canada-hopping Newfoundland comedian Jonny Harris are among the East Coast nominees for the 2021 — Read on http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/lifestyles/local-lifestyles/diggstown-john-walker-documentary-and-bone-cage-among-2021-canadian-screen-awards-nominees-570219/

Toronto’s Little Jamaica moves one step forward in becoming a heritage conservation district | The Star

Coun. Josh Matlow is putting forward a motion to Toronto city council this week to make Little Jamaica a heritage conservation district understudy. — Read on http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/03/30/torontos-little-jamaica-moves-one-step-forward-in-becoming-a-heritage-conservation-district.html

“This Is What 50 Looks Like:” Method Man Talks Being On Screen And Staying In Shape – Essence

The ‘Power Book II’ star just won his first award for acting from the NAACP. — Read on http://www.essence.com/entertainment/method-man-talks-being-on-screen-and-staying-in-shape/

Sinead O’Connor with Sly and Robbie special guest Burning Spear NYC 09 december 2005 by Dubwise Garage | Mixcloud

Listen to Sinead O’Connor with Sly and Robbie special guest Burning Spear NYC 09 december 2005 by Dubwise Garage for free. Follow Dubwise Garage to never miss another show. — Read on m.mixcloud.com/dubwisegaragecollection/sinead-oconnor-with-sly-and-robbie-special-guest-burning-spear-nyc-09-december-2005/

‘Like finding the Mona Lisa’: Historian learns freed slave buried in Hamilton Cemetery is U.S. Civil War vet | CBC News

A former Virginia slave who was laid to rest in the Hamilton Cemetery is believed to be the first Black man in Canada to have received an official U.S. Civil War headstone. Historian Robin McKee spoke to CBC News recently about how he found Nelson Stevens’s unmarked grave in 2007 while doing research for one of his Civil War-themed […]

Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong Radio gives soca a home on SiriusXM | Loop News

Soca has found a home on SiriusXM. The popular Caribbean genre which originated in Trinidad and Tobago will be played 24/7 on Tuff Soca, an offshoot of Bob Marley’s Tu — Read on http://www.looptt.com/content/bob-marleys-tuff-gong-radio-gives-soca-home-siriusxm

The Black ‘Godmother of Grunge’ Who Inspired Your Fav Bands | by Stephanie Siek | Mar, 2021 | ZORA

When you think of grunge, do you picture a bunch of long-haired White guys in plaid shirts, singing about teenage angst and self-loathing? Time to expand that viewpoint. Standing above them all… — Read on zora.medium.com/the-black-mother-of-grunge-who-inspired-nirvana-95886f21eccc

It wasn’t easy being a real-life beachcomber | CBC Archives

Picking up stray logs from the waters of British Columbia for resale to the lumber industry was a way of life immortalized by a 1970s CBC-TV series. But by 2000 beachcombers were finding it was no longer a viable living. — Read on http://www.cbc.ca/archives/it-wasn-t-easy-being-a-real-life-beachcomber-1.5487196