Hey, all you lovers rock fans. And you rasta music fans. Everybody. Guess who’ll be performing at the 2010 West Indian American Day Carnival Association’s (WIADCA) “Caribbean Peoples Unite for Haiti” benefit concert on Thursday, September 2? Freddie McGregor. More appropriately, Mr. Freddie McGregor! Yes, the legendary Freddie McGregor, the Black Knight of Jamaica’s reggaedom. You got it!
President Obama should be applauded for his handling of the war in Iraq. In the midst of massive political attacks at home, he has kept his word to withdraw American combat troops from the country, reducing the number from more than 160,000 to fewer than 50,000 troops on the ground—the smallest level since the 2003 invasion.