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Iley Dread gets ready to release his first reggae album in a decade.
September 7, 2026

Iley Dread eager to share ‘Musical Upliftment’

After more than a decade since the release of his last reggae album, Jamaican-Canadian singer, producer, promoter and record label executive, Iley Dread, is preparing to release Musical Upliftment.
Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis sits at the defence table during a break in closing arguments during his murder trial, related to the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, in Clark County District Court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas last Monday.
September 7, 2026

Keffe D says he is ‘getting out on appeal’

The man found guilty of the murder of Tupac Shakur has insisted he is innocent. The hip-hop icon, also known by his stage name 2Pac, was shot and killed in September 1996 when he was just 25, and last…
Louise Bennett-Coverley, Jamaica’s beloved Miss Lou, would have turned 108 on September 7.
September 6, 2026 by Professor Opal Palmer Adisa

Miss Lou’s legacy demands more

On September 7, Louise Bennett-Coverley, our beloved Miss Lou, would have marked her 108th birthday. Every year, we praise her. We quote her. We celebrate her poetry, her performances, her wit, her…
Friends and family members of rapper Tupac Shakur, including his sister, Sekyiwa Shakur (second left), line up to hug Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal (right), after a jury found Duane Davis guilty of first-degree murder in his trial related to th
September 6, 2026

The trial over Tupac Shakur’s murder ended with a guilty verdict

LOS ANGELES (AP): For nearly 30 years, the story of Tupac Shakur’s killing existed somewhere between an unsolved murder and hip-hop mythology. His death became intertwined with the killing of…
Revellers celebrate the Notting Hill Carnival in London on Monday, August 31, 2026.
September 6, 2026 by Dave Rodney

Renewal and change as Notting Hill Carnival turns 60

The Notting Hill Carnival in London, the largest street carnival event of its kind in Europe, is now 60 years old. This year’s staging took place over the last weekend, culminating on Monday. I caught…
AP Singer Cassandra Wilson died in her native Jackson, Mississippi, on Tuesday morning.
September 6, 2026

Cassandra Wilson, 2-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, dies at 70

NEW YORK (AP): Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter, and producer, has died. She was 70. Dubbed America’s best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Wilson was best…
Almost 30 years after the release of the iconic movie ‘Dancehall Queen’, starring Audrey Reid, the new television series ‘Daughters of the Dancehall Queen’ draws on its cultural legacy.
September 5, 2026 by Nicola Cunningham

Almost 30 years after ‘Dancehall Queen’, new series enters production

Building on the legacy of the iconic film Dancehall Queen while bringing a new generation of stories to the screen, Daughters of the Dancehall Queen is set to begin principal photography in early…
Attendees participate in the opening ceremony of the Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, South Korea, on March 31, 2021.
September 5, 2026

China boycotts Asian art festival over Taiwan exhibition name

SEOUL, South Korea (AP): A group of Chinese artists is boycotting a major art exhibition in South Korea over the organisers’ plans to use the name ‘Taiwan Pavilion’ for an exhibition of works by…
This image, released by Universal Pictures, shows Matt Damon as Odysseus and Zendaya as Athena, in a scene from ‘The Odyssey’.
September 5, 2026

Early predictions for the 2027 Oscar race

NEW YORK (AP): Fall movie season also means Oscar season. It might be only just September but the jockeying for next March’s Academy Awards is well underway. Movies first started revving up their…