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May 30, 2019

My heart sang when I read this profile of myself in the

today. TY

@bycdl

for such an amazing profile! You captured me so well. And thanks to The Door Restaurant in Queens for delicious oxtails!~ ‘How Nicole Dennis-Benn Depicts Working-Class Life nyti.ms/2I8JpWY

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Caribbean Girl Reading The World

@BookOfCinz

Apr 5

I think travelling the Caribbean, I have seen where this book showcases so much of the reality of Caribbean people working in tourism. If you haven’t already done so, be sure to add HERE COMES THE SUN to your reading list. #ReadCaribbean

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Justine Henzell

@JustineHenzell

Mar 26

Stunning imagery by Nail Ruechel and insightful text by

🇯🇲

Seeking the Spirited, Mystical Jamaica Tourists Don’t See

A photographer’s journey through her native spiritual landscape of Jamaica, where Christian and Afro-centric traditions blend.

Seeking the Spirited, Mystical Jamaica Tourists Don’t See

Isis is Dr. Semaj-Hall

❤

for this one.

A photographer’s journey through her native spiritual landscape of Jamaica, where Christian and Afro-centric traditions blend.

Mar 25

❤️🤗

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Isis is Dr. Semaj-Hall

@IsisSemajHall

Mar 25

@ndennis_benn for this one. nytimes.com/interactive/20

Mar 23

I wrote a little something for the New York Times on Jamaican spirituality, featuring the arresting photographs of Naila Reuchel - A Journey Through Jamaica's Native Spiritual Landscape - The New York Times ⁦

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@NYTmag

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Seeking the Spirited, Mystical Jamaica Tourists Don’t See

A photographer’s journey through her native spiritual landscape of Jamaica, where Christian and Afro-centric traditions blend.

M.O.

@__mofiyinfoluwa

Mar 19

I’ll be using Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Here Comes The Sun and Morrion’s Bluest Eye. I will anchor it on excerpts from my essay ‘Skinwork’ about my skin bleaching attempts in secondary school. I hope it comes together nicely.

Great article

!!! I enjoyed our wonderful conversation. Glad it was helpful! This is a well written and nuanced essay about our likkle island. Big up! 👊🏾🖤🇯🇲💫

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Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

@CharlieBCuff

Mar 9

Writing this article on tourism in Jamaica was emotional. It came about after I stumbled upon a very sad story of a young woman who decided to maintain the legacy of her mum's guesthouse in the mountains of Westmoreland parish. nytimes.com/2023/03/09/tra

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Alexander Chee

@alexanderchee

Mar 15

Did not know you could write off coffee as home office supplies.

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chris evans

@notcapnamerica

Mar 10

Angela Bassett was not offered any roles for 18 months after her Oscar nomination for What’s Love Got To Do With It

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Mar 15

Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar win was historic, but she has no lead roles lined up. If academy voters “really want to do right by her,”

@kylebuchanan

writes, they need to write more lead roles for her. Otherwise, he adds, “it’s just empty back-patting.”

After Her Oscar Win, Will Michelle Yeoh Get to Lead Again?

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The tragic history of the first Asian woman nominated for Best Actress

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@NPR

Mar 13

Sablan Pascale was told she'd never become an architect because she's Black and a woman. Now she works for one of the world's top firms — and wants more people who look like her to join the field.

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Pascale Sablan was told she'd never become an architect because she's Black and a woman. Now she works for one of the world's top firms and she wants more people who look like her to join the field.

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Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

@CharlieBCuff

Mar 9

A massive thank you to

@riazphillips

and

for weighing in on this as expert voices and to

@amyvirshup

for the edit 🙏🏾🖤

Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

@CharlieBCuff

Mar 9

Encountering Another Jamaica

A writer explores the island beyond its popular all-inclusive resorts, seeking out guesthouses owned by locals, and experiences beyond the beaches. She finds mountain views, cascading waterfalls and...

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Sampson

@OfficialSampson

Feb 23

Growing up, we often heard that dark skinned black people weren’t attractive. Being one myself, it meant a lot seeing someone like Whoopi Goldberg embrace the way she looked, on TV—and rightfully so—despite what the standards of colorism say, Whoopi was gorgeous.

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Alexander Chee

@alexanderchee

Mar 4

Gioncarlo Valentine on the stunning portrait he took of Jonathan Majors and Michael B. Jordan for the

. instagram.com/p/CpX9hSTLpG6/

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LGBTQ+ Advocacy Committee to present “Sociocultural and Analytic Consideration for Engaging the #LGBTQIA+ Communities.” Led by

@ilanmeyer

@Miles_Ott

, the free webinar will be held virtually March 29 at 3 p.m. ET. Register! bit.ly/3kAsdkp

Still surreal. Congratulations

@JennaBushHager

@TODAYshow

!!!!

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TODAY

@TODAYshow

Mar 2

Today marks four years of Read with Jenna!

Congratulations on this milestone, @jennabushhager!

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Model Kai Newman gives a tour of her hometown of Kingston in some of spring's best looks.

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Kai Newman on Her Jamaican Roots and Modeling with Her Daughter

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@amyaniobi

Feb 8

“It’s not a snub. It’s a reflection of where the Academy stands and the consistent chasm between Black excellence and recognition.” // Gina Prince-Bythewood on Oscars Shutout of The Woman King’ – The Hollywood Reporter

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Feb 19

The Woman King was robbed. #Oscars2023

Kabaka Pyramid Wins ‘Best Reggae Album’ At 2023 Grammy Awards

Wayne Chen

@wcchen

Feb 5

Kabaka Pyramid Wins ‘Best Reggae Album’ At 2023 Grammy Awards #Jamaica #Reggae via

@dancehallmag

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Reggae star Kabaka Pyramid has won the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album with his sophomore album The Kalling. The winner was announced by presenter

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Queen Nanny: Jamaica's Military Strategist and Hero

Black Girl Nerds

@BlackGirlNerds

Feb 2

Queen Nanny: Jamaica's Military Strategist and Hero blackgirlnerds.com/queen-nanny-ja #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

blackgirlnerds.com

Queen Nanny of the Windward Maroons has largely been ignored by historians who have restricted their focus to male figures in Maroon history.

Center for Scientific Diversity at ISMMS

Jan 27

“Without comprehensive examination of efforts [to prioritize pandemic-driven antiracism In institutions] & changing structural policies & practices, these efforts are thought to be more effective at masking rather than eliminating systemic racism” -

@Sci_Diversity

@EKTBenn

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@Sci_Diversity

Jan 25

Excited to share the Center for Scientific Diversity's newest publication in JCTS - Undue Burden: Black Faculty, COVID-19, and the Racial Justice Movement. cambridge.org/core/journals/

Wayne Chen

@wcchen

Dec 26, 2022

"Slavery isn’t African history. It Interrupted African history." Mutabaruka, #Jamaican dub poet, musician, actor, educator, and talk-show host, born Allan Hope 70 years ago today, on 26 Dec 1952, in Rae Town, Kingston. The People's Philosopher.

@Mutabaruka_Ja

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BRI

@BriMalandro

Dec 30, 2022

Vivienne Westwood predicting the future of fashion about 25 years ago

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I cried when Quincy got down on both knees, begging Shelby to stay. Such a beautiful, well executed scene. I felt every moment of that love-hate relationship. 🏆🎬💫 #TheBestManFinalChapters #TheBestMan

Elroy Jetson

@thetoolsman

Dec 11, 2022

Prime Video is crushing the Christmas movie category this year. Your Christmas or Mine and Something from Tiffany’s are two sweet sweet movies.

Angela Bassett and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Marvel Studios

@MarvelStudios

Dec 12, 2022

Congratulations to Angela Bassett on her Golden Globe Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for #WakandaForever #GoldenGlobes

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Great piece from

for NYT: “Read Your Way Through Kingston, Jamaica: “No one sound speaks for all” Jamaicans. Here are the books he recommends for readers who want to see the island’s many facets, inc

’s Here Comes the Sun:

Read Your Way Through Kingston, Jamaica

“No one sound speaks for all” Jamaicans, the novelist Marlon James says. Here are the books he recommends for readers who want to see the island’s many facets.

The best books to give as gifts, according to Read With Jenna authors

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Thank you so much

and

! BIG GIRL is a holiday gift rec on Today! The best books to give as gifts, according to Read With Jenna authors today.com/popculture/boo via

@TodayShow

today.com

Giving books as gifts is an art – and these authors have perfected it.

Essay by

which bigs up many Jamaican authors including

@olivesenior

Read Your Way Through Kingston, Jamaica

“No one sound speaks for all” Jamaicans, the novelist Marlon James says. Here are the books he recommends for readers who want to see the island’s many facets.

Latoya West-Blackwood (She/Her/Hers)

Huge congrats

!!! #ProudWifey 🏅🍾🥂👏🏾❤️🤗

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@garveygirl

Nov 27, 2022

Congratulations

@ndennis_benn: “My book won the prestigious Prix Millepages literary prize in France for best foreign literature!

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Nicole Dennis-Benn wins Prix Millepages 2022

olive senior

@olivesenior

Nov 28, 2022

Nicole Dennis-Benn wins Prix Millepages 2022 – Repeating Islands

repeatingislands.com

PRIX MILLEPAGES 2022! Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Here Comes the Sun, translated into French (by Benoîte Dauvergne) as Si le soleil se dérobe (Editions De L’aube, 2022) has just won the Prix Millepa…

Latoya West-Blackwood (She/Her/Hers)

Congratulations

❤️❤️❤️

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@garveygirl

Nov 27, 2022

Congratulations

@ndennis_benn: “My book won the prestigious Prix Millepages literary prize in France for best foreign literature!

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Latoya West-Blackwood (She/Her/Hers)

@garveygirl

Nov 27, 2022

Congratulations 🎉🎉 🇯🇲

: “My book won the prestigious Prix Millepages literary prize in France for best foreign literature! 🥳💫🎉😭”

Éditions de l'Aube

@EditionsdelAube

Nov 25, 2022

😍"Si le soleil se dérobe" de Nicole Dennis-Benn, trad. de l'anglais (Jamaïque) par

@BenoiteTrad

est lauréat du prix de la Librairie Millepages cat. Étranger, aux côtés de "La promesse" de Damon Galgut ! Merci à Brindha, Pascal Thuot, Simon Payen & toute l’équipe 🥰

alexispauline

@alexispauline

Nov 19, 2022

“I don’t need you to know who I am. Just what I’m about to do.” -Edwidge Danticat, Cane and Roses: A Manifesto I never get over what an amazing writer Danticat is. Never.

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RENAISSANCE Updates

@B7Album

Nov 18, 2022

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