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Capital Caribbean Heritage Month

Introduction

Here is your guide to Caribbean Heritage at the Arthur C. Banks Library at Capital Community College. Notice the tabs along the side of the screen; select the one that best matches your informational need.

.Map is from Wikimedia Commons and created by K. Musser

Map of the Caribbean. Extends to Mexico and Guatemala on the west, Key West on the north, Barbados and Guyana on the east, and Colombia and Venezuela on the south. There is an inset that shows the area in relation to North and South America.

List of Caribbean Islands

Here is a list of Caribbean islands:

Anguilla

Antigua

Aruba

Bahamas

Barbuda

Barbados

Bonaire

British Virgin Islands

Cayman Islands

Cuba

Curacao

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Grenada

Guadeloupe

Haiti

Jamaica

Martinique

Montserrat

Nevis

Puerto Rico

St. Kitts

Saint Lucia

St. Maarten/Saint Martin

St. Vincent and the Grenadines 

Trinidad

Tobago

Turks and Caicos

United States Virgin Islands

Famous Caribbean Americans

Bahamas

  • James Weldon Johnson, author and composer.
  • Lenny Kravitz, musician.
  • Sidney Poitier actor.
  • Roxie Roker, actress.
  • Al Roker
  • Esther Rolle, actress.
  • Klay Thompson, NBA basketball player.
  • W.E.B. DuBois, author.

Barbados

  • Cuba Gooding, Jr. actor.
  • Jada Pinkett, actress.
  • Shirley Chisholm, congresswoman.
  • LL Cool J, actor and musician.
  • Rihanna, singer.
  • Eric Holder, former Attorney General of the United States.
  • Gwen Ifil, journalist and television newscaster
  • Paule Marshall, novelist.
  • Susan Taylor, editor-in-chief of Essence magazine.
  • Grenada
  • Malcolm X, minister.
  • Audre Lorde, author.

Guyana

  • Dawnn Lewis, actress.
  • C.C.H Pounder, actress.

Haiti

  • Jean-Michel Basquiat, artist.
  • Suzanne de Passe, television, music and film producer.
  • Garcelle Beauvais, actress.
  • Stephen Curry, NBA basketball player.
  • Blake Griffin, NBA basketball player.
  • Jean Baptiste Pint Du Sable, founder of the City of Chicago.
  • Yamiche Alcindor, journalist.
  • Edwidge Danticat, author.

Jamaica

  • Tyson Beckford, actor.
  • Harry Belafonte, singer.
  • Andre Dummond, NBA player and Connecticut native.
  • Patrick Ewing, former NBA player.
  • Mike Tyson, retired boxer.
  • Colin Powell, former United States Secretary of State and retired four-star general in the United States Army.
  • Kamala Harris, United Sates Vice President.
  • Gil Scott Heron, musician.
  • Missy Elliott, singer.
  • Claude McKay, author.
  • David Paterson, former Governor of New York.
  • Susan Rice, former United States National Security Advisor.
  • Kerry Washington, actress.
  • Al Rocker

Trinidad and Tobago

  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, former NBA basketball player.
  • Tatyana Ali, actress.
  • Cardi B, rapper.
  • Jackee Harry, actress.
  • Sloane Stephens, professional tennis player.
  • Stockley Carmichael, political activist.
  • Daymond John, entrepreneur and co-star of ABC's Shark Tank.
  • Arnold Rampersad, biographer and literary critic.

St. Kitts and Nevis

  • Louis Farrakhan, minister.
  • Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
  • Cicely Tyson, actress.
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist.

United States Virgin Islands

  • Wayne Brady, television game show host.
  • Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, actor.
  • Kelsey Grammar, actor.
  • Tim Duncan, former NBA basketball player.
  • Roy Innis, African-American activist.
  • Denmark Vesey, slave revolt leader.