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Producer who worked with artists such as Shabba Ranks, Garnett Silk and Morgan Heritage was a maverick of the dancehall era
Renowned Jamaican record producer Robert “Bobby Digital” Dixon died in a Kingston hospital on 21 May, aged 59. The cause of death was kidney disease.
One of the most respected producers of the dancehall era, Dixon transformed contemporary reggae several times over, enjoying tremendous international success with Shabba Ranks, Garnett Silk, Sizzla Kalonji and Morgan Heritage. He is also considered as an architect of the reggaeton genre that swept Latin America in the early 1990s, since some of its earliest hits sampled his work with Ranks.
As temperatures soared to over 30C (86F) in London, the tempo picked up at the Notting Hill carnival – and so did the costumes. The elaborate handmade outfits known as mas – short for masquerade – are at the heart of the annual spectacular.
Allegations that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford when the two were teenagers have not just prompted uncertainty about Kavanaugh's confirmation, they also have prompted discussion about intoxication, sexual assault and how alcohol impacts memory especially in the developing teenage brain. The contentious topic typically arises in discussions of college sexual assault like the case of Brock Turner, a 19-year-old convicted for sexually assaulting a young woman who had passed out from drinking.
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The nation's attention is currently on the southern border, where the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy has caused a crisis over separated immigrant children. Forgotten in all this is that an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants continue to live in the United States - and most of them work.
For the past 40 years his writing and poetry have been the voice of the West Indian living in Britain. With his trademark fedora ever at a jaunty keel, and his wired spectacles, Jamaican-born, UK-bred writer Linton Kwesi Johnson, the has, through his work, continuously provided a window on the experiences of his people using the rich and multi-layered culture of his native Jamaica, particularly patois and reggae rhythms as the substrate from which grows the biting social and political commentary which is at the heart of his work.
Republicans in Congress spent much of 2017 seeking to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. After repeated attempts failed, they celebrated a victory with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
"They have no damn right," former Vice President Joe Biden said on Feb. 16, denouncing Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Biden spoke for many Americans who are indignant over the mounting evidence of a multifaceted effort by the Kremlin to sow discord among Americans and tilt the election in favor of Donald Trump.
The election of Donald Trump may have surprised some observers, but many Californians felt a sense of dA jA vu. Just over 20 years ago, the state passed Proposition 187.
The future remains uncertain for a group of young people who were brought to the U.S. as children without legal authorization. Some of these so-called "Dreamers" were temporarily shielded from deportation through an Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
As a scholar of African-American and Southern politics for the last 25 years, I've witnessed a lot of election upsets and surprises. None has been more interesting than the Democrat Doug Jones' election to the U.S. Senate in a Dec. 12 special election against Republican Roy Moore.
It's been one epic year for women, a notion definitely not lost on Glamour magazine as it named U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, 27 key facilitators of the Women's March on Washington and astronaut Peggy Whitson among its women of the year from the worlds of politics, entertainment, fashion, business and more.
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Nest Labs is adding Google's facial recognition technology to a high-resolution security camera that will provide a glimpse at the potential for increasingly intelligent computers to see and understand everything... Nest Labs is adding Google's facial recognition technology to a high-resolution security camera that will provide a glimpse at the potential for increasingly intelligent computers to see and understand everything going on in people's homes. Witnesses say gunshots and explosions have been heard at a mall, casino and hotel complex near Manila's international airport in the Philippine capital.
Katy Perry has delighted fans with the release of a new track just days ahead of her appearance at the Grammy Awards this weekend. Katy Perry has delighted fans with the release of a new track just days ahead of her appearance at the Grammy Awards this weekend.