Caribbean-American immigrant, journalist, entrepreneur, and advocate, Felicia J. Persaud, is all about celebrating history, and at this moment in time, the name Kamala Harris is nothing short of historic. Persaud has seized the moment to rally the Caribbean to stage a super party in honour of the fact that United States VP-elect, Harris, is the first black woman to hold this post, and she is Caribbean to boot.
Significantly, however, Persaud was persuaded to take this stand owing to the fact that somehow, Harris’ Caribbean heritage is all too often being overlooked. “It upsets me how Caribbean people continue to be ignored. Kamala Harris is the first black Caribbean-Indian-American VP, except that her Caribbean/Jamaican heritage is being ignored. Most of the reports speak to her Indian/American heritage and that’s it. So we have to put some spotlight on the Caribbean community and make some noise,” Persaud told
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Double take: A closer look at American bronze sculpture Editorial Staff
The Magazine ANTIQUES November 2006.
Bronze sculpture made in the United States between 1845 and 1945 was little studied and largely undervalued until it began to attract interest in the early 1980s. It now continues to gain attention from scholars, museum curators, and collectors. Broadening scholarship has brought recognition to the variety, quality, and importance of this field of American art, just as the market value of sculpture continues to rise. What is lagging behind this expanding appreciation by the public and in the marketplace is connoisseurship. This article is intended as a primer on how to look critically at bronze casts in order to judge them for quality and authenticity.
US vice-president elect Kamala Harris.
Two Caribbean organisations have joined forces to put on a star-studded Caribbean celebration for US vice-president elect Kamala Harris ahead of her inauguration.
According to a release on CaribPR Wire, global private sector investment agency Invest Caribbean (ICN) and the Caribbean American Action Network (CAAN), a collective of Caribbean American and Caribbean organisations, will be presenting a live, virtual, Caribbean inauguration party under the theme: “Celebrating #CaribbeanAmericanKamala.” Caribbean American voters turned out in huge numbers to select the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris ticket on November 3, 2020. On Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, January 17, 2021, there will be an impressive gathering in cyberspace with some of the Caribbean’s most notable artistes, dignitaries, and organisations globally to mark another dynamic moment in history the pending swearing-in of Harris as the first black and female, Caribbean-A