Podcast
Strictly Facts: A Guide to Caribbean History and Culture
Episodes — page 2
- School Hair Codes, Colonial Respectability, And Caribbean Rights with amílcar peter sanatan
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. A school bans “edges,” a graduation blocks braids, a child with locks is told to stay home—on the surface, they’re dress code deba…
- Reclaiming Caribbean Architecture with Professor Dahlia Nduom
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. A building can be history you can walk through, and in the Caribbean those stories are contested, resilient, and alive. With Profe…
- We Will Rise Again: A Post-Melissa Reflection
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. A storm can level homes, but it also reveals what we stand on. Hurricane Melissa’s record winds and devastating surge tore through…
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Three Hundred-Year Fight For Sovereignty with Dr. Garrey Dennie
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Sacred land, contested memory, and a centuries-long fight for sovereignty, this conversation with Dr. Garrey Dennie traces the dee…
- Where Land, Memory, and Medicine Meet with Aleya Fraser
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. What if the medicine you need was growing right outside your door? We sit down with author and farmer Aleya Fraser to trace the li…
- Beyond the Canon: Unearthing Early Caribbean Literary Treasures with Dr. Alison Donnell
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. What if everything we thought we knew about Caribbean literary history was incomplete? That's the premise of today's captivating c…
- Cuban and Puerto Rican Cinema's Political Lens with Dr. Pedro Noel Doreste Rodríguez
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. In the mid-20th century Caribbean, cinema became a powerful tool for nation-building, education, and political messaging through t…
- Caribbean Horror: Bringing Folklore to Film with Alyscia Cunningham
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Storytelling lies at the heart of Caribbean identity. Award-winning filmmaker Alyscia Cunningham joins us to unravel the power of…
- From Jamaica to England: Documenting Caribbean Family Histories with Calvin Walker
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. When we lose a loved one, the stories they carried often disappear with them—unless we find ways to preserve them. This powerful t…
- The Art of Truth: How Documentary Filmmaking Captures Caribbean Political Movements with Richard Vaughan
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. What drives someone to pick up a camera and document untold Caribbean history with no formal training? For Richard Vaughn, it was…
- Six Days That Shook Trinidad: The 1990 Coup Attempt with Eskor David Johnson
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Thirty-five years ago on July 27, 1990, Trinidad and Tobago experienced a shocking violation of its democratic foundations when Y…
- The Chain is Broken: Emancipation Day and Dutch and Danish Colonial Legacies
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Freedom wasn't granted—it was seized through blood, sweat, and unwavering resistance. Across the Dutch and Danish Caribbean coloni…
- Caribbean Airmen: Untold Stories of World War Heroes with John Concagh
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. When we picture World War I and II, we rarely envision Caribbean soldiers in RAF uniforms flying bombing missions over Nazi German…
- From Colonial Marines to Caribbean Pioneers: The Merikins of Trinidad
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Caribbean American Heritage Month invites us to explore the rich tapestry of identities that shape our diaspora experience. In thi…
- Between Two Empires: The Battle for Freedom in the Atlantic World with Matthew Taylor
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. The forgotten liberation of thousands stands at the intersection of British military history and the African diaspora. When histor…
- Our Culture Doesn't Break, It Transforms: Evolving Caribbean Identity
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. What remains of Caribbean identity when our most treasured traditions begin to shift? Bridging thoughts from our recent episodes,…
- The Caribbean Front Room as Architecture and Cultural Archive with Dr. Stacy Scott
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Step into the Caribbean front room – that formal, pristine space with plastic-covered furniture, carefully displayed china, and fa…
- What Happens When Art Preserves What Nations Cannot? with Keisha Oliver
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. The Caribbean's artistic traditions reveal profound truths about our history, identity, and resilience. Keisha Oliver, PhD candida…
- Split Me in Two: Exploring Dougla Identity in the Caribbean
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. Have you ever wondered about the beautiful complexity that arises when different cultures blend? The Caribbean term "Dougla" captu…
- Banking on Community: The Caribbean's Alternative Economy with Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein
Send us a text message and tell us your thoughts. The Caribbean's financial revolution has been quietly unfolding for generations. We delve into the powerful world of rotating savi…
