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Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley addressing the UN in 2019.

Prime Minister Mia Mottley speaking at the United Nations in 2019.  Barbados' first Prime Minister, Errol Barrow, declared in a December 1966 address to the UN that the newly independent country wo

ArtsEtc Editor Linda M. Deane pointing toward the Statue of Nelson in Bridgetown, St Michael, June 2020.

At last!  Bajans seem up for the takedown of the statue of Lord Nelson.  Photo of ArtsEtc Editor Linda M. Deane pointing the way copyright © 2020 by Izora Devonish.

 

AE Editor Linda M. Deane with her children, Izora and Anderson, at a Black Lives Matter demonstration held in Bridgetown June 13, 2020.

Our Global Spring: ArtsEtc Editor Linda M.

Long, quiet streets in Prince George's County, Maryland, during COVID-19 pandemic, May 2020.

Getting used to long streets that are emptier than usual...almost.  Photos Copyright © 2020 by Ronald A. Williams.  

 

Drawing in pencil and markers of Nike VaporMax 2019 by Aeryn Sandiford, March 2020.

What's more crushing than COVID-19?  Illustration Copyright © 2020 by Aeryn Sandiford.

 

Kamau Brathwaite, 1930-2020.

Kamau Brathwaite, widely acclaimed as Barbados’ greatest poet, and certainly one of the giants of Caribbean Literature, whose writings spanned literary criticism, drama, history, sociology, ant

ArtsEtc Contributing Editor Racquel Griffith on a ladies' night out in China, circa 2019.

ArtsEtc contributing editor Racquel Griffith (first from the right) and friends exploring the rich experiences Chinese culture has to offer earlier this year.

Carol Roberts-Reifer (l) and the Ambassador of the Argentine Republic to Barbados, Gustavo Pandiani (c) in conversation with the artist Nick Whittle about his 2019 exhibition Other Lives.

Nick Whittle (r) in conversation with National Cultural Foundation CEO Carol Roberts-Reifer and Gustavo Pandiani, the Ambassador of the Argentine Republic to Barbados.  Photograph Copyright

Liam Neeson in a scene from one of his movies.

Liam Neeson in a familiar scene from one of his movies: the Taken star’s real-life story of near revenge outraged many for its racist undertones early last month.  Photo Copyright © 2019.<

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