November 5, 2025 - Events
Yesterday, a couple of my Orthodox Jewish students gave me a birthday gift – the gift of prayer after class in celebration of my birthday on November 4th.
For transparency, my mother’s mother’s mother was born and raised as a Jew in Jamaica.
October 29, 2025 - Events
I am honored to stand alongside multiple honors students who nominated me as the professor who had the most impact on them. This recognition is truly humbling.
July 11, 2025 - Events
I argue that the Dunn’s River Lounge (includes live music) is the best Jamaican restaurant in Long Island, NY.
The food is boombastic – in Dancehall’s Superstar Shaggy’s voice.
In the first picture, I’m standing with the owner, Naala Royale-Holder. In the photograph behind us is her mother, Dr. Gloria Royale-Davis, at 82 years old, looking very young.
In my hand, I am holding Dr. Royale-Davis’ ethnographic study, Jamaicans in New York.
My brother, a NY attorney, and Dancehall Superstar Red Fox are two of the ethnographic study’s subjects/interviewees. The superbly talented Red Fox is my former Jamaican schoolmate, and he is Ms. Royale-Holder’s cousin.
I recommend Jamaicans in New York. It is a great read and looks nice on the coffee table (beside Afrika’s Struggle: His Experiential Journey – my shameless plug).
July 11, 2025 - Events
Photographer: Adelise Felix
July 2, 2025 - Events
Dean Simone Yearwood welcomes alumni Jimmy and Ashley McMillian, as well as me, to her office.
