This year marks 60 years since the island gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
-- Jamaican pride is on full display throughout New York City and the world as this year marks 60 years since the island gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
"This is lignum vitae flower, hibiscus flower," she explained."What the print symbolizes is taking all the national symbols with the doctor bird, the ackee fruit, the hibiscus and the lignum vitae flower and merge it into one print ... I'd been missing home and just wondering how I could get back. How could I connect with a land I love so much?"
Brown moved from a small town called Lucea between Negril and Montego Bay to the Bronx at 7 years old. She recently learned her late great grandmother may have been a freed slave.
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