100 years ago today, on 8 Feb 1925, Marcus Garvey, convicted of mail fraud, entered Federal prison in Atlanta to serve a five year sentence. At his trial the prosecutor had demanded of the jury: “Will you let the tiger loose?” Garvey was an intolerable threat to the white establishment. #Jamaica #MarcusGarvey

University of the West Indies, Mona. 2024-25 Senior Mathematical Olympiad (Grades 9, 10, 11). Some of #Jamaica’s best high school students were taxing their brains today.

Sharon Duncan-Brewster, British television, film, and stage actress of #Jamaican descent, born 49 years ago today on 8 Feb 1976, in London. #Jamaica #Dune

Junelle Bromfield, #Jamaican athlete, born 27 years ago today on 8 Feb 1998, in Black River. St. Elizabeth Technical, UTech alumna; Olympic mixed 4x400m Bronze Tokyo 2020; World Champs 4x400m Silver 2022 Eugene; World Indoors 4x400m Gold 2022 Belgrade; Commonwealth 4x400m Silver 2022 Birmingham. #JunelleBromfield #Jamaica

Oberon Pitterson-Nattie, #Jamaica netball player and coach, born 54 years ago today on 8 Feb 1971. #SunshineGirls

The Orangeburg Massacre: 57 years ago today, on 8 Feb 1968, three students were killed and 28 injured when police fired into a crowd at South Carolina State University, a historically Black college. They had been peacefully protesting against racial segregation at a local bowling alley.

Captain Horace Burrell (8 Feb 1950 - 6 Jun 2017), #Jamaican football administrator and entrepreneur, born 75 years ago today, in Clarendon. Instrumental in #Jamaica’s historic qualification for the 1998 FIFA France World Cup. #ReggaeBoyz

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Beenie won’t be dissing Trini food again. The Pothound Association - OLD DOG LIKE WE (Beenie Man Diss) via @YouTube

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. Sinclair Lewis (7 Feb 1885 – 10 Jan 1951), born 140 years ago today. First American to win Nobel Prize in Literature was thought overly alarmist in 1935. #SinclairLewis

Charles Dickens (7 Feb 1812 – 9 Jun 1870) born 213 years ago today. One of my favourite authors, once. Despite his vivid evocations of cruelty, harshness, injustice in Victorian England, was a vocal defender of Governor Eyre who had killed hundreds of innocent #Jamaicans at Morant Bay in 1865.

Sir Patrick Linton Allen ON GCMG CD KStJ, 6th Governor-General of #Jamaica; Head of State; representative of British King, born 74 years ago today on 7 Feb 1951, in #Kingston. Childhood in Fruitful Vale, Portland; teacher, Seventh-day Adventist pastor and leader. Became G.G. 26 Feb 2009. #PatrickAllen

The whole town talking 'bout You and your new guy You're flying high now In your single world But you're gonna need me Errol Dunkley, #Jamaican singer and songwriter, born 74 years ago today on 7 Feb 1951, in #Kingston. #Reggae

#BobMarley’s ‘Is This Love?’ performed in Westminster Abbey by Yolanda Brown.