Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jamaicans have proverbs, expressions, and commentary on just about everything. Marital woes? Workplace drama? The frenzied pace of ...

When Birmingham author Askhari Johnson Hodari was feeling low in 2006 over a spate of deaths involving friends and family, it was a Jamaican proverb that changed her mood. Her writing partner in ...