At St. Maria Goretti Catholic School in Scarborough, Ont., a group of Grade 8 students have wrapped up their lunch break and are settling in for language arts class with their teacher, Michael Grandsoult. But this is no ordinary language arts class — and Mr. Grandsoult, as his students call him, is no ordinary teacher. […]
New Beginnings Support Program is the only charity in its category that offers a year-long women’s employment and economic empowerment solution free of charge to women aged 18-39 in Toronto. This June as many as thirty women will commence their journey to women’s economic empowerment (WEE) with the added agency of a free Humber College […]
Alectra Inc. and York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) announce the establishment of the ‘Alectra Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) Undergraduate Awards’ to provide scholarship opportunities for Black and Indigenous students accepted into an EUC undergraduate program. “We are proud to have Alectra as one of our partners and are very grateful […]
The Caribbean Camera roving lens found Trinidad-born artist Abriella Sammy brightening an early summer day at Front and Bay streets, Toronto.
A statue honoring Mary Ann Shadd Cary was unveiled in Windsor last Thursday. Cary, an American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher and lawyer, was the first Black woman in North America to establish a newspaper. Born in 1823 in Wilmington, Delaware, Cary and her family worked to free enslaved people as part of the Underground […]
The Ontario NDP has updated its housing platform for the upcoming provincial election. The party’s most significant addition to its housing platform is a promise to build 250,000 new “affordable and non-market rental homes.” Of these, at least 150,000 will charge below-market rents and 100,000 will be “deeply-affordable” homes. The updated platform maintains the NDP’s […]
What do an 18th century portrait of British nobility, a desecrated cemetery in Priceville, Ont., and the 2018 film Black Panther have to do with one another? In her 2021 Massey Lecture, Ghanaian-Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan explores the undiscovered the past of Black people in the West. She also touches on Afrofuturism, little-known ghost […]
Amaka, who was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, takes on the role of the Danish prince in the Stratford Festival’s production of Hamlet this season, directed by Peter Pasyk. Amaka is the first Black woman to play Hamlet at Stratford. The Toronto-based actor was also the recipient of this year’s Harry Jerome Presidents Award. […]
By Lincoln DePradine Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley is being honoured by a leading Black organization in Canada. Mottley is the first winner of the “International Leader Award’’ of the Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA). “We recognize that part of our growth has to be local, national and, of course, international,’’ BBPA CEO […]
Thursday, April 14th, 2020 Get ready to release all that pent up Soca energy as two of Trinidad and Tobago’s best Soca artists will be bringing “Soca Come Back to Toronto” this weekend for the first time in 2 years. Reigning Road March and International Soca Monarch will take to the stage at the Grande […]
