61 years ago, a man named Duke Vin stowed away on a boat from Kingston to London. In Jamaica, he’d been a selector, spinning records on a prominent reggae sound system—a truck loaded with a generator, ...
Sound-system culture in the UK became a refuge for the children of Windrush who were searching for a foothold in an increasingly hostile country. Black people were 15 times more likely to be stopped ...
One of London's reggae pioneers is due to receive a blue heritage plaque ahead of this weekend's Notting Hill Carnival. Barrington Von Adams, better known as Daddy Vego, founded his People's Sound ...