She said it took inspiration from 1920s fashion; to some it also evoked the wardrobe of a fictional nanny. The references ... kept pace in a two-tone pink and maroon suit by Marc Jacobs, which ...

Springtime in Texas means one thing — bluebonnets blanketing the roadsides and rolling pastures in a sea of cobalt. But wait… what’s that? A rogue splash of maroon among the blue? Yep, the ...

We’re taking our learning forward to co-create our next major piece, Nanny of the Maroons, which will be our most ambitious yet with 1,000 community participants involved in all aspects of its ...

The Maroons and Rastafarians of Jamaica and Britain During 17th century Jamaica, the resistance of Nanny of the Maroons helped lead the Maroons out of slavery through resistance fighting. Nanny of the ...

Today’s Jamaica reveres its Maroon history. Among the seven figures designated as “National Heroes” by the government, the only woman is Nanny, who also appears on the country’s $500 banknote.

A great maroon leader, said in oral history to be a son of an Ashanti traditional leader called Quateng (kwarteng) from Gold Coast (Ghana). Quateng was taken captive and sold to slavery and sent ...

The play ‘Rebel Woman’, is a specially-commissioned drama based around the true story of Queen Nanny and the Maroons (the name given to runaway slaves). Queen Nanny was an 18th Century ...

The Maroon Key Society, described on UChicago’s Orientation website as “the College’s honorary society and its principle [sic] student advisory group,” met for the first time this year on October 25 ...

Copycat classicism is here. Literary re-enactments by the photographer Stan Douglas — and a wave of other remixers — are creating new types of art around Black history. By Walker Mimms Which ...

Maroon resistance was fundamentally about escaping ... such as Zumbi in Brazil and Nanny and Cudjoe in Jamaica. Their guerrilla warfare tactics were sometimes more debilitating to white power ...

And those are? Maroon sandals. I'm not surprised that the scarlet shoes have caught my eye—what's stood out the most among shoe trends in 2024 is color. We're in for a vacation season in which ...