The world of underground Jamaican dancehall, and specifically the culture of Dancehall Queens, is vibrantly explored in new documentary Bruk Out! Here's the synopsis: BRUK OUT! follows six outspoken ...

Johanna Taylor teaches Jamaican dancehall choreography. Taylor got her start by taking West African and Afro Caribbean dance classes in the Bay Area. As she became a student of the craft, Taylor got ...

There are 2.8 million people in Jamaica. To put that in perspective, that’s less people than live in Kansas. And yet, Jamaican food, Jamaican culture, Jamaica beaches, Jamaican music, and, yes, ...

“There’s an art to having a good time,” Akeem Smith says. He would know. Even though he’s standing alone in Red Bull Arts, a cavernous gallery space on West 18th Street in New York, Smith is presiding ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — In 2016, the cover of the Yellow Pages brought Jamaica to a standstill. For the Kingston and St. Andrews editions of the directory, three artists were commissioned to create ...

Reggae icon Buju Banton is finally out on bail; Girl With a Purpose calls this latest development “a small victory” and notes that “in the meantime, two infamous Jamaican Dancehall artistes…Vybz ...

“It’s a hard-core explicit content. That is really the definition of dancehall,” said Spice, one of the reigning queens of the genre, which blossomed in Jamaica in the 1970s and is in the midst of a ...

Lately, every day has been a thrill for Spice. Jamaica’s very own dancehall queen celebrated her birthday, finished up an international tour and wrapped filming a season of the VH1 reality show Love & ...

Rohan Da Great grew up in a Caribbean part of Brooklyn, in a first-generation-American family with deep roots in Jamaica and reggae. But he didn’t start getting serious about his own music until he ...