In this reported feature, culture editor Kaitlyn McNab examines the beauty machine of Caribbean carnival, specifically studying the intricacies and impact of Grenada’s Spicemas 2024 Pretty Mas parade.

Before the sun rises on the second Monday of every August, the conch shell sounds. That is the signal. When it does, thousands of people pour into the streets of St. George’s in the dark. Their bodies ...

SOURCE: Changes in Carnival and in Popular Attitudes Towards it between 1970 and the present day (1984) by Genevieve Allong Many people today refer to “pretty mas’” not understanding the wealth of ...

The cultural entity of carnival in the Caribbean began in the 18th and 19th centuries as private celebratory processions among enslaved Africans imitating the elaborate Lenten celebrations of slave ...