My grandfather went to work in Cuba in the 1950s, at a nickel-ore processing plant on Nipe Bay, in northeastern Oriente province, where my mother and her three sisters spent part of their childhood. Their life, in a town called Nicaro, was meant to be culturally insular: American social clubs, American schools, middle-class homes in a gated town, with streets on which the mining company had even planted cottonwood trees. Outside the gates and across the river from Nicaro was Levisa, for miners and other laborers, handymen and “houseboys,” like Cleveland Manning, a Jamaican who worked for my grandparents. Read More...
Social media has been filled with happy moments at the much-anticipated wedding between Davido and Chioma taking place in Lagos State today June 25, 2025. Whilst there were happy moments, there were also tear-jerking moments as well. The video posted by label executive Ubi Franklin showed the couple kneeling before Chiomas parents at the venue as Chioma's father prayed for them. ADVERTISEMENT
He prayed, "David and Chioma, on Christ the solid rock you will stand, if you think you have made it, what the Lord would do is almost 10 times what you see. Read More...
Fifteen women clad in lululemon yoga wear tighten their abs, flex their glutes and stare toward the corner of the brightly lit fitness studio at a medical skeleton that has no muscles to build or, for that matter, fat to shed. A peppy instructor named Patricia Whitcas encourages the class as she pumps up the Taylor Swift.
But most of the women are ignoring Whitcas and instead sneaking peeks at a petite woman in the middle of the room as she adjusts her plank position. Read More...
