NICKI GYUL — LEH MEH TALK MEH TALK: FROM TRINIDAD TO FOX NEWS AND “VOTE RED” — A MAGA APPEAL TO THE BARBZ?
GRACE NOTES IN CONTEXT NICKI GYUL — LEH MEH TALK MEH TALK: FROM TRINIDAD TO FOX NEWS AND “VOTE RED” — A MAGA APPEAL TO THE BARBZ? Celebrity politics, immigrant memory, the Barbz — and one Trini watching all of it VIDEO COMMENTARY — GRACE NOTES IN CONTEXT Watching Trinidad-born Nicki Minaj sitting on Fox News with Lara Trump, now openly carrying a “Vote Red” message to young Americans, leaves me with one irreverent question: what exactly are we watching here? Is this simply one celebrity exercising her political independence, or are we also watching the enormous reach of the Nicki Minaj brand — and that formidable Barbz fan base — enter a very different kind of arena? Because even friends around the Caribbean are looking at this latest incarnation of Nicki and asking questions. Not whether she has the right to support Donald Trump. Of course she does. Not whether somebody born in Trinidad and raised in America has the right to become politically con...
