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By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: March 16, 2005

Welcome to the second March edition of the CaribbeanTales newsletter! We have been busy these past 2 weeks to bring you this issue, full of new content, with our brand new interactive design. Many of you have made use of our instant feedback tool, and we hope more of you will let us know what you think about caribbeantales.ca.

This month, I think about the many submissions we have received, and the variety of stories that we all have

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Spike It Up! »

Spike Lee takes on mainstream hip-hop and asks us to do the same

By Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: March 16, 2005

When Spike Lee gets onto the podium to speak, we all must know that something of extraordinary significance about our society is “definitely wrong” and has to be confronted.

It is clear Spike must have thought he would never need to repeat himself after making those controversial movies that provoke introspection into the way black people, especially African Americans, live today.

Does it really have to take more than

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Azúcar! The Story of Sugar »

A Review of work by Dominican Republic author Alan Cambeira

By Laurel Johnson, Midwest Book Review | Posted: March 09, 2005

Azúcar! is a beautifully written, starkly realistic story of life on a Caribbean sugar cane plantation. Alan Cambeira constructs this tale with vivid prose and memorable characters. Readers will be enchanted and horrified in turn, as they are transported into the lives of those who toil in horrible conditions from sunup to sundown harvesting the cane fields. Those living

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