Rebekah Kebede

Investigating deep-rooted beauty ideals in Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One recent holiday, a carload of Jamaicans went in search of…

Maybe a little, but that's not why bug zappers are so popular. An Object Lesson. Once I brought my zapper hom…

A year ago, Jamaican voters, tired of years of severe austerity measures, unexpectedly ushered in a new gover…

Pollution and warmer temperatures have killed reefs off the shore of Hellshire Beach, allowing waves to pound…

Women's rights activist arrested after she is accused of naming alleged sexual predators on social media.

When Jamaican police made an arrest last week under the nation's cyber crime laws, the identity of the suspec…

"For too long, we have been too quiet. We can't keep doing things the same way and expect the different resul…

"Every day, it's life or death" Kaci was always what she calls a "girlie boy." Growing up in her grandmo…

By Rebekah Kebede KINGSTON, Nov 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Jamaican women bear the brunt of a "culture…

Martin Luther King called Marcus Garvey the first man "to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and des…

Ira Wallace knows people think collard greens aren't sexy. "It's your grandmother's food-it's not so exciting…

As I watched my in-laws pile food onto their plates, I imagined the possible headline the next day: "Fatal br…

Kale is the “it” green, over all things lettuce, collard, and calloo. It even has its own hashtag: #kaleyeah!…

Treasure Beach, Jamaica For the last year and a half novelist Marlon James has been sifting through "boring" …

We had assumed for years that Winnifred was dead. Fenced off, manicured, paved over. It couldn't be helped. T…

TREASURE BEACH, Jamaica Living as a closeted gay man in Jamaica drove novelist Marlon James to such despair t…

While abortion is legal in countries such as Guyana, Cuba, Barbados and the Caribbean Netherlands, it is ille…

Kingston, Jamaica It was a rainy April day in 1966 when Emperor Haile Selassie came to Jamaica. As his plane …

This story is part of an ongoing campaign called the Alphabet of Illiteracy. By using letters themselves-the …

By Rebekah Kebede KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Jamaican women are largely cut of…

KINGSTON, March 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Be tough. Don't have feelings. Be a man and fight! Such are …

KINGSTON Provisional results showed Jamaica's opposition party narrowly winning a general election on Thursda…