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“It was on one such boat that Millie Love made her way from Jamaica to Manhattan.”
““People from the Caribbean,” he explained, “did not respond to America’s oppressions in the same way that Black Americans did.”
“The silly yellow fruit that became a part of their culture was freighted, from the start, with suggestive meaning.”
“Even politicians sang to gather crowds before delivering their speeches.”
“Marcus Garvey was born in Saint Ann Parish in 1887 and grew up there before he left for New York.”
“But in the hills of Saint Ann, where he spent breaks from school in Kingston, he absorbed the language and sounds that inspired them.”
“And then he reflected, in the gravelly voice for which he became known in old age, on how his Caribbean identity aided his success in Eisenhower’s America.”
“He replied warmly and arranged to meet for lunch near his home on the Upper West Side.”
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