Towns underwater, 185mph winds and half a million without power: Hurricane Melissa’s path of destruction devastates Jamaica

The world’s strongest storm of the year has torn through Jamaica with 185mph winds and flash flooding, causing widespread ...
Opinion
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Colonialism’s Legacy Has Left Caribbean Nations Much More Vulnerable To Hurricanes

Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw hurricanes and storms as part of the normal cycle of life. The Taino of the Greater Antilles and the Kalinago, or ...
The News-Gazette

Inside Out | The survival, rich cultural legacies of the Tainos

Members of Concilio Taíno Guatu-Ma-cu-A-Borikén present an areyto (communal song-dance) for the public in 2017 in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. Watkins Watkins Members of Concilio Taíno ...
Eater

This Canoga Park Cloud Kitchen Restaurant Serves the Best Puerto Rican Mofongos in LA

Bill Esparza is a James Beard award-winning food journalist, author of LA Mexicano, and onscreen food television personality covering food in United States and Latin America. Rodriguez, a 10-year LA ...
Athlon Sports

From Father-Son Conversation to Cultural Movement: How Taíno Golf is Bringing Indigenous Pride to the Fairways

Ricky and Emil Collado turned a teenager’s frustration with golf’s lack of Latino representation into Taíno Golf, a thriving apparel brand that celebrates indigenous Caribbean culture. Now, as both ...
Columbia University School of Professional Studies

Cultivating Sustainability from the Land of Wood and Water

How the SUSCI program has helped student Khande-Jae Fisher professionally and as an agent of sustainable change.