Today, there are hair stylists throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, the U.K., and other countries that will assist in locking your hair. The hairstyle has become popular not just with Jamaicans and people who sympathize with the Rastafari cause, but with people of all races and ba...
In 2017, two of Holmes's great-grandchildren successfully petitioned to have his remains exhumed, in order to finally put to rest a rumor that Holmes had somehow escaped the gallows and that someone else was buried in his place. Such was the power of Holmes's mystique–many refused to bel...
Infamously reticent about her past, her children inherit a flash-drive on which she confesses the first of many Earth-shattering revelations: “Eleanor is not my real name.” Recounting her tumultuous life beginning in 1960s Jamaica, Eleanor (then going by the name of Covey) is forced into...
In a 1902 essay on Jewish cultural revival, Ahad Ha’am reflected on the death earlier that year of the Russian Jewish sculptor Mark Antokolsky. He lamented not only the talented artist’s demise but the loss to Jewish culture that his career represented. If Antokolsky had wanted “to crea...