Author: Ziggy Marley

Jamaica to host 2019 Concacaf Caribbean Club Championship

Photo by Neil Theasby via Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0) Article by Loop Sports, via Loop Jamaica The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) announced that Jamaica will host the 2019 Flow Concacaf Caribbean Club Championship. The competition for professional Caribbean clubs is scheduled to take...

Ziggy Marley and Michael Franti Announce West Coast Tour

Ziggy Marley and Michael Franti team up for a U.S. West Coast tour, which starts with a two night run at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, CA on June 11th & 12th through to their final show together at the Deer Valley Resort in Park...

Ziggy Marley to embark on European tour this summer

After completing his US Tour with Michael Franti, Ziggy Marley traverses onto Europe, starting on July 25th in Perranporth, UK. The tour will continue all over the continent, before his final show on August 26th in London. Other festival highlights include the WOMAD Festival in...

A Marley Family Celebration at Miami’s Kaya Fest on 4/20

Photos By Rick Munroe / MFN Article via Musicfestnews.com Kaya Fest was a day of conscious, uplifting roots reggae music, with an effective message that transcends all barriers of race, age, gender and creed promoting peace, love & unity. On what can be considered the most appropriate day...

The new scramble for Africa

Graphic by Matt Withers/The Economist Article via Economist.com The first great surge of foreign interest in Africa, dubbed the “scramble”, was when 19th-century European colonists carved up the continent and seized Africans’ land. The second was during the cold war, when East and West vied for the allegiance of...

Student climate campaigner Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Photo by Axel Heimken (AFP Photo) Article viaYahoo! News Greta Thunberg, the Swedish schoolgirl climate campaigner who has inspired worldwide protests, should be awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize, Norwegian lawmakers said Thursday. "We have proposed Greta Thunberg because if we do nothing to halt climate change it will...

Why Captain Marvel’s milestone status creates so much pressure for it to succeed

Photo by Gareth Cattermole (Getty Images for Disney) Article by Constance Grady and Alex Abad-Santos, via Vox After 11 years of Marvel moviemaking, Captain Marvel has made history simply by existing. The film, about a fighter pilot turned alien soldier turned cosmic superhero, is the first in Marvel Studios cinematic history...

Vijender Singh dreams of becoming India’s first boxing world champion

Photo: Getty Images Article by Mark Lelinwalla, via Sporting News Vijender Singh pounds on the heavy bag under the vigilant eyes and guidance of Freddie Roach at the legendary trainer’s Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood. This has been a snapshot of the daily scene at the...