and 400 years from now?
Pull up the sound system vibes and draw for the Steppin’ Razor, the great Peter Tosh who wailed out: “400 years, (400 years, 400 years, ahhh ahh ahh ahh)… Come…
Author: IsisSemajHall
Thinker. Writer. Originator.
salt or pepper, it’s (all)spice
* Following recent provocative conversations, I have added some updates to this post since the original publishing date. They are indicated in green. ~Riddim Writer~ Just when I thought that…
we are all vulnerable, in a way
On the morning of Sunday, October 7, 2018, I turned on the television in a Miami hotel room and the NBC news scroll read: “Earthquake in Haiti, 11 dead.”*ย The…
musical triggers, issa thing
I’ve been wanting to write about this new Protoje album,ย A Matter of Time, for a little while now. Every time I sat down to do so, I stopped myself and…
a day in the park
Since returning to Jamaica from the US a couple of years ago, I have been keenly aware of race and the positioning of whiteness in the Caribbean broadly and in…
nobody told me this
It is mid-semester. The last couple of weeks of exams have weighed heavily on University students. After hearing from so many students on the verge of giving up, I write…
a hundred $ stab
About an hour ago or so, I saw four officers of Jamaica’s Constabulary Force poised with weapons in hand. Three of these officers held semi-automatic rifles, while the fourth maintained…
a new story
From negro, to nigger, to black, to enslaved property — but still negro. To Other, to colored, back to black, to African-American, to nigga, to African American without a hyphen,…
