As a young child he made a living selling Kisko pops in Coronation Market while navigating the streets of Rose Town and Whitfield Town in south St Andrew, years before migrating to the United States (US) where he would carve out a career in.
When Jamaican educator Dr Karren Dunkley first came to the United States from Jamaica, little did she know that her initial challenges would ultimately lead her to the US Department of Justice where she serves as one of two Black consultants who oversee the implementation of a program to end racial discrimination and harassment in Utah’s Davis County school district.
Her introduction to life in the United States was less than ideal and certainly did not match up with the glowing picture painted of life overseas. She survived near homelessness, at times sleeping in her car – when she had a car. Sometimes she.