He was raised in poverty, dropped out of high school, and survived being Black in a segregated society — before Black Lives Matter or Black History Month. He also became the first Black megastar and ...

The Mighty Sparrow was laid low by … a pinched nerve. Rumors that the 75-year-old “Calypso King of the World” – and Jamaica, Queens, resident – was gravely ill flooded Caribbean radio and Internet ...

Calypso legend Mighty Sparrow — who mixes Frank Sinatra’s suaveness, R. Kelly’s obsession with sex, Bob Dylan’s social commentary, and 50 Cent’s trash-talking into one Trinidadian whirlwind — is no ...

Singer, actor, producer and activist Harry Belafonte, who spawned a calypso craze in the U.S. with his music and blazed new trails for African American performers, died Tuesday of congestive heart ...

In a unanimous vote the Legislative Assembly approved the “Declaration of Honorary Citizen to Walter Gavitt Ferguson Byfield”. Walter Ferguson Byfied, received the designation for his contribution to ...