Cudjoe Day is celebrated in Jamaica on the first Monday in January. The two main maroon groups at that period were Leeward maroons led by Captain Cudjoe and Windward Maroons led Queen Nanny.

Queen of Ambundu/Kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba (Angola); Queen of Sheba (antiquity biblical); Aminatu Zaria (Nigeria); and Nanny of the Maroons, Jamaica (born to the Asante/present day Ghana).

Interesting and vital look at the life and legacy of Queen Nanny of the Maroons in Jamaica and the African diaspora. Explores the events around this community of enslaved Africans defeating the ...

Craving seafood? Chef Okkoy Graham has a delicious recipe to try. Graham opened Nanny's Jamaican Kitchen in St. Paul and since then, he has created a menu full of Jamaican food and innovative recipes.

These include mothers surrounded by their many children, from “The Queen Nanny of the Maroons”series (2004) to Holy Mary posing in the iconic pietas seen in “Yo Mamas Pieta”(1996).

The winds of change are sweeping through the Maroons system, with Maia Tua-Davidson also being promoted to the head-coaching role of the Queensland under-19s women following the departure of ...

An East Berlin nanny, accused of allegedly stealing over $6,000 from a Gettysburg-area client, claimed in an interview that the disparities in her story were from "pregnancy brain," according to ...

Even those in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean who may ... governments and institutions that this exceptional Caribbean citizen served with distinction.

It alleges the attacks were committed with such regularity that Gaiman’s child became aware of them and began calling the nanny “slave.” In graphic detail, Pavlovich alleges the abuse ...

Civil rights organizations are probably already prepping the lawsuit that they will file in the event that Donald Trump issues an executive order restricting birthright citizenship. Their argument ...

accusing Gaiman of repeatedly sexually assaulting her while she was working as the couple's babysitter and nanny. Scarlett Pavlovich on Monday filed the lawsuits in federal court in Wisconsin ...