BOOK ESTATE LIFE LAUNCHED

Belvidere Estate – Fedon’s House, a book on Julien Fedon who freed all slaves in Grenada in 1795 has been presented to Prime Minister Keith Mitchell. The author, EVERYBODY’S Magazine publisher, Herman Hall, is promoting the book in Trinidad & Tobago and Grenada before he moves on to Jamaica and other Caribbean states.

On Thursday, 5:30 pm, the book is scheduled for launching at the historic Marryshow House, St. George’s, Grenada, home of the UWI in Grenada; Friday, Sep. 23, 5:30pm, a formal launch will be in Gouyave, hometown of Olympian Kirani James and the Mighty Sparrow.

While the setting of this easy reading history book is Belvidere Estate, Grenada, Hall emphasizes that the book is related to readers across the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. It is a presentation of plantation life in colonial West Indies and growing up in pre-independence English speaking Caribbean.

Mitchell to attend Dr. Stanislaus Funeral

Prime Minister Keith Mitchell will be at the funeral of Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus, on Saturday morning in Brooklyn, NY. The Prime Minister confirmed his travel plan to EVERYBODY’S Magazine this morning.

In a chat with the publisher of EVERYBODY’S at the prime minister’s office in St. George’s this morning, the Prime Minister said, “Dr. Stanislaus has been a special Grenadian in any description one can give. He was to me a special human being. I have always said that outside of my mom, I don’t know any one closest to that special description as Dr. Stanislaus. … The people of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique have lost a beloved son and a very great human being … He was a friend of almost every Caribbean national in New York.”

Passing of Caribbean-American Giant

St. George’s, Grenada:

News of the passing of Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus in Brooklyn, NY has been announced on the evening news on Grenada’s television stations. It is expected that Prime Minister Keith Mitchell will soon make a public comment about Dr. Stanislaus passing and it will not be surprising if he attends the funeral.

Dr. Stanislaus who was born in Petite Martinique lived in the U.S. almost all his life. He died on Sunday morning after suffering from various ailments including prostate cancer. He was 95.

Dr. Stanislaus attended Howard University Dental School. One of his liberal arts professors at Howard was Dr. Eric Williams who later left for Trinidad where he led Trinidad & Tobago into independence.

Dr. Stanislaus was a former EVERYBODY’S, the Caribbean-American magazine, columnist and feature writer.

Although Dr. Stanislaus helped Grenada throughout his long life he was far more popular as a dentist and community advocate in Brooklyn, NY, until Grenada’s late Prime Minister Herbert Blaize appointed his best friend and confidante to be his consul general in NY.

Dr. Stanislaus who was well known in New York City for his eloquence and stature became highly respected within the consular and diplomatic corps. After Ambassador Robert Millette relinquished his UN ambassadorship, Prime Minister Keith Mitchell appointed Dr. Stanislaus as Grenada’s Permanent Representative to the UN.

The Stanislaus family of Petite Martinique became household names in their new country, the U.S. For example, Thelma, in the 1970s sitcom, Good Times, was a close relative. Her actual name is Bernadette Stanislaus but the TV industry encouraged her to shorten her name to “Stanis” much to the chagrin of Dr. Stanislaus who helped to shape her acting career.

For decades New York politicians regarded Dr. Stanislaus as the most prominent person in NY’s English speaking Caribbean community and in times of social unrest they turned to Dr. Stanislaus for advise. He was friend of governors and mayors regardless to political party. Stanislaus was a staunch Democrat.

He is survived by his wife Beryl, one daughter and several sons.

EVERYBODY’S Magazine and Herman Hall Communications, Inc. have lost a diehard supporter.

Here is a statement by Herman Hall. “Although I knew the end was near and he told me so in a recent phone chat, nevertheless, I am devastated about the news especially to know I am not in NY and cannot be with the family.

“Within five days upon my arrival in NY, end of May 1967, I met Dr. Stanislaus at the Grenada Mutual Association in Harlem. We have been friends for 49 years and he was a father figure. He knew I did not have a single relative in the US except my two adventurous schoolmates from Gouyave who arrived in the US a few months before.

“Dr. Stanislaus felt my priority must be to get a university education regardless to how many menial jobs I had to take in order to survive and his second advice was “you must always help Grenada.” And, our last conversation was the usual question, “How are things in Grenada?”

“It was Dr. Stanislaus who in 1973 introduced me to the leadership of New York’s Caribbean and African-American communities by allowing me to emcee a prestigious dinner honoring Congresswoman Chisholm, the first black woman, and the first Caribbean-American, in Congress as well as the first black person to seriously seek the presidency of the U.S. .

“Dr. Stanislaus helped launch EVERYBODY’S Magazine. He contributed financially towards the publication.

“When I ran for public office two decades ago, his financial contribution was also impressive although I am not a member of the Democratic Party.

“The late 1960s and early 1970s found Dr. Stanislaus leading fundraising drives to establish Bishop College in Carriacou.

“I do not recall Dr. Stanislaus not supporting any event and cause on behalf of a project in Grenada.

“Dr. Stanislaus was extremely popular in the New York-Caribbean community regardless to island. My first trip to Hartford, Ct was with Dr. Stanislaus. We went by a Greyhound bus to witness the opening of Jamaicans in Hartford Community Center. Today, the Center is an institution in Hartford.

“Yes, we disagreed bitterly about the running of Brooklyn’s Carnival on Labor Day weekend. It was the 1970s, the carnival was still in its infancy, and there were countless debates over policy and managerial issues.

“But, I’ll always remember Dr. Stanislaus for his loyalty to his best friend, the late Prime Minister Herbert Blaize, and the tone of his voice that morning when he called to give me the sad news.”

Hempstead Caribbeans with Clinton

Caribbean-Americans living in Hempstead, NY, site of the first presidential debate on September 26 between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, are voting solidly for Hillary Clinton based on EVERYBODY’S Magazine presidential poll.

Hempstead, a suburb of New York City, has middle and upper middle class nationals from Jamaica, Grenada, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago and other islands. Many Caribbean-American entrepreneurs who are shippers, owners of restaurants and bakeries in Brooklyn and Queens dwell in Hempstead.

As part of EVERYBODY’S Presidential Poll based on our subscribers nationwide, 8 questionnaires were mailed to subscribers in Hempstead (zip code 11550) where the magazine has approximately 150 subscribers. Of the seven persons who responded to the questionnaire, they all indicated they are voting for Mrs. Clinton.

Based on the magazine’s poll Mrs. Clinton will get 96.7% of the Caribbean-Americans vote even more than what then Senator Barack Obama got in 2008.

The magazine presidential questionnaire was mailed to at least one subscriber in each zip code across the US where the magazine has a subscriber. To get details of the survey order the September edition: www.everybodysmag.com.

J’JOUVERT MURDERS IN BROOKLYN

There were multiple shootings during this morning Caribbean Carnival in the segment called J’Ouvert. The event started at Grand Army Plaza and ended at Nostrand Ave @ Clarkson Ave, East Flatbush, Brooklyn, a prominent Caribbean neighborhood. On Empire Blvd. at least one person was shot and more in other areas along the J’Ouvert route.

J’Ouvert is organized by a different group and not the West Indian -American Carnival Day Association, the organizer of the carnival later today on Eastern Parkway. This year, for the first time, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Brooklyn Borough President Adams officially recognized J’Ouvert

The politicians or their offices promoted J’Ouvert in bad taste by having pre-teenage children grace the promotional poster. “Someone ought to tell them J’Ouvert is for adults not for little children,” Hilda, a J’Ouvertplayer, remarked this morning.

With so much publicity on J’Ouvert most cops and the mainstream are asking what is J’Ouvert. The Mayor de Blasio and Borough President Adams may have unintentionally mislead the public by giving the impression that J’Ouvert is the main event and not the Carnival-Parade on Eastern Parkway later today.

There may have been 200,000 revelers in this morning J’Ouvert.

PHOTO: Yvette Rennie, longtime organizer of J’Ouvert this morning.

When EVERYBODY’S asked J’Ouvert organizer Yvette Rennie about the shootings, “I cannot talk about that now,” she said.

As early as Sunday afternoon East Flatbush looked like a war zone with hundreds of police officers at various intersections.

For photos of this morning J’Ouvert see our slide show.

NY DAILY NEWS FOCUSES ON MAG.

From 1920s Harlem to Brooklyn today, Everybody’s Caribbean magazine’s looks at the long history of New York Caribbean Carnival.



By Jared McCallister
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Sunday, September 4, 2016, 4:00 AM

It’s been a long road for the New York Caribbean Carnival and the latest edition of Everybody’s Caribbean magazine looks at the event — from its Harlem roots and its Brooklyn rebirth under the West Indian-American Day Association — through the unique perspective of Everybody’s editor and publisher Herman Hall.

Costumed Di’Midas mas band member Kayla Williams dominates the cover of Everybody’s September issue. Hall, who worked with the West Indian-American Day Association in its early stages, has passionately crafted the issue to examine the beginnings of the New York carnival — from the traditional pre-Lenten indoor events in Harlem during the 1920s to its revival and growth in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn carnival pioneers Rufus Gorin and Carlos Lezama, the 1972 carnival journal cover created by masquerade designer Terry Evelyn, an article on early Brooklyn carnival by Wilfred Thomas and Hall’s cover story, “Let’s Make N.Y. Carnival Great Again,” are featured in the magazine.

There are rare photos of the first carnival on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn and gatherings of WIADCA’s members are in the issue, in addition to an article on Caribbean-American voters and the leading presidential candidates — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Everybody’s Caribbean magazine is available in print and digital versions by visiting www.everybodysmag.com/magazines

THOUSANDS VISITING NY FOR CARNIVAL

NY – SUNDAY, SEP 4:

Thousands of Caribbean nationals from the Caribbean, Canada, Europe and across the U.S. are in Brooklyn for one of the largest cultural festivals in the U.S., the annual “West Indian carnival on Labor Day Weekend, where approximately 1.6 million spectators will be on Eastern Parkway to view the carnival-parade on Labor Day Monday beginning at 11am.

The early part of the carnival-parade will be dominated by politicians and trade unions seeking votes since New York State Primary is Tue., Sep. 13th. Moreover, it is a presidential election year. Many politicians will be at the kick-off breakfast on the tennis court under a large tent on Buffalo Ave. The breakfast is by invite only; public officials and sponsors are invited. Hillary Clinton was at the breakfast and carnival parade four times. Politicians attending the breakfast and walking down Eastern parkway are 99.9 percent Democrats. They are the ones the West Indian-American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA) invites.

For security reasons, EVERYBODY’S Magazine is not revealing the top personalities who will lead the carnival parade. It is public knowledge Mayor Bill de Blasio and wife will dance down Eastern Parkway and will be at the breakfast.

The J’Ouvert begins at 4am and ends around 8am. The start point is Grand Army Plaza, J’Ouvert then moves Flatbush Ave, then to Empire Blvd. At Empire Blvd. it goes to Nostrand Ave. where it ends at Midwood Street.

The Panorama held on Saturday night was won by D’Radoes; Pan Evolution and Crossfire came 2nd and 3rd respectively.

(PHOTO): The Mighty Sparrow enjoying a dish of Carnival Pealu, Trinidad style, at Charlie’s Records where a free carnival fete is held every Labor Day Saturday.

Want to learn about the origins of the “West Indian” carnival in Harlem and Brooklyn click “Magazine and Subscription.”

The scene at Derrick Noel Calypso Tent on Labor Friday Night, Fri., Sep. 2.

MAYOR TIGHTENS SECURITY FOR CARNIVAL

Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City, Brooklyn’s Borough President Eric Adams and New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton are asking the Caribbean community to ensure a safe J’Ouvert during this weekend Caribbean carnival.

A poster created by the City, and displayed in retail outlets in Brooklyn’s Caribbean neighborhoods reads, “The City of New York is partnering with Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams and the NYPD for a safer J’Ouvert.”

On the poster are children less than 12 years old parading in carnival costumes, it seems on a sunny day.

Evidently nobody has told the mayor, police brass and Adams that children are not in J’Ouvert. J’Ouvert begins around 3am and ends by 8am, a time when children are sleeping.

It seems the City has its carnival priority and security mixed up. J’Ouvert attracts less people and participants are dressed in rags and painted in mud certainly not in colorful costumes.

J’Ouvert is not about children. The photos of little children pasted on the City’s J’Ouvert poster is misleading and in poor taste.

West Indian-American Day Carnival Association, organizer of this weekend shows at the Brooklyn Museum grounds and the Eastern Parkway carnival-parade on Labor Day, is not the organizer of J’Ouvert.

A separate group organizes the event. This year, and for the first, the City officially recognized the group.

At Last year’s J’Ouvert an Ivy League graduate, an aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Carey Gabay, 43, first deputy counsel to Gov. Cuomo’s Empire State Development Corp., was shot and killed in the J’Ouvert.

Gabay was one of thousands of brilliant people from across the nation who visits Brooklyn on Labor Day Weekend to show their Caribbean roots.

Because it was one of Governor Cuomo’s aides who were shot, this year elected public officials are appealing for a safe carnival.

“Those appeals are insulting to the Caribbean community since most of the killings over the years do not happen during the carnival or committed by revelers,” someone remarked yesterday. “Those crimes are committed off the parade route mainly by people who are not in the carnival.”

But, with NY primary falling each year a few days after Labor Day, politicians bond with the Caribbean community to get votes. Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton did so when she ran for the US Senate. Primary Day is September 13th this year. With so many public officials hoping to seek the mayoralty next year sensing that Mayor Bill de Blasio may be a one term mayor, they are pandering to NY Caribbean voters by using the carnival as their playing field.

In the meantime, the people who provide the music and glittering costumes are punished. Police have a curfew in places where steelband orchestras rehearse and costumes are made. They have to close by 11pm each night.

The Mayor, NYPD and other officials need to clarify if they are spending more resources on J’Ouvert or on the 3-mile carnival parade route which will attract more than 1.5 million revelers on Labor Day.

The statements by Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Bratton asking for a peaceful carnival may have ignited passion. An unofficial police blogger calls this weekend carnival “A West Indian Day Death Pool.” The statement continues, “So what will be the final numbers for the 2016 celebration of a beautiful culture? This includes J’Ouvert and the parade.” NYPD is not responsible for the blogger actions and cannot identify any of its officers as the blogger.

PHOTO: Mayor de Blasio, his wife Chirlane and his two children, prance down Eastern Parkway when he ran for mayor.

Carnival Week in NY

Brooklyn is ready for this weekend’s carnival in NY. EVERYBODY’S Magazine gives detailed information about how the carnival started as indoor events in Harlem during the 1920s-1940s. The magazine tells you why the carnival ended abruptly in Harlem and how it came to Brooklyn.

PHOTO: The executive members of the West Indian-American Day Association of 1972. (2ND PHOTO: Carnival in Harlem on Labor Day Saturday of 1950. The carnival was then known as the West Indies Parade.

There are rare photos of the first carnival on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. It was the year 1971. Before 1971, the carnival was held on small streets in Caribbean neighborhoods but 1971 was a turning point. The carnival events were held on the grounds of the Brooklyn Museum.

EVERYBODY’S September or Carnival Edition provides the dates of 2017 carnival worldwide. To get this historical edition in print and digital format, click “Magazine & Subscription” on our homepage.

STEELBAND DOCUMENTARY ON SATURDAY, NY

The New York City Premiere of Panomundo Part 1: The Evolution of the Steelpan will take place on Sat., June 25, 2016, at 2:00PM at ARTs East New York in Brooklyn. There will be a Q&A session with filmmaker Charysse Tia Harper following the 42-minute documentary. This event is in partnership with a Take Stock Inc. initiative called “Evolution of Steelpan” (EOS).

“This is a very exciting time for us,” explains Harper, one-half of the filmmaking team. “We filmed the majority of the US portion of [Panomundo] Part 2 [Pan Worldwide] in Brooklyn and it is our pleasure to introduce the documentary to the community.”

Harper, along with British filmmaker Keith Musaman Morton, have spent four years making Panomundo: a feature-length documentary told in two parts about the history of the steelpan and its global influence. Part 1 focuses on the inception of the steelband in Trinidad & Tobago until its international recognition and Part 2 looks at the instrument’s influence in six countries: Canada, Japan, Nigeria, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States. This section is currently in post-production with an anticipated release later this year.

Part 1 premiered in August 2015 at the British Film Institute’s We Love Carnival Screenings in London. From there, it was shown around the United Kingdom until having its US premiere at Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival in Ithaca, NY, in April 2016 and again screening at Virginia International PANFest in May. View the 2-minute trailer.

“We purposely chose June to have the New York City premiere because it is Caribbean Heritage Month and what better way to get more eyes on this film?!” asserts Harper. “This is also a way for the bands we interviewed to see an introduction into the history before they see how they have assisted in continuing evolution of the instrument.”

In addition to the film screening, Take Stock will present “Evolution of Steelpan” (EOS), a traveling production that provides information about music and culture’s immeasurable ability to influence society. The offering debuted in Miami in April 2016. The production primarily focuses on the steelpan (steeldrum) and its role in Caribbean culture. “EOS” aims to highlight notion of music as a kind of auditory allusion that transcends time connecting the universe. For this New York City premiere, “EOS” will showcase historical still images, live steelpan and guest speaker Dr. Kim Johnson, The Carnival Institute of Trinidad & Tobago.

The event runs from 2:00PM to 4:30PM on Saturday, June 25, 2016, at ARTs East New York (534 Livonia Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11207); nearest subway exits are Junius on the 3 or Livonia Ave. on the L. It is FREE and open to the public with a suggested donation of any amount. Donations will be used to support the post production of Panomundo Part 2: Pan Worldwide and the “Evolution of Steelpan” (EOS) national tour.

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