Today, on Indigenous Veterans Day, we honour Indigenous peoples – past and present – who have served and continue to serve with great pride and sacrifice for our freedom. Each year, during Veterans’ Week and Remembrance Day, Canadians join together to acknowledge all those who served our country, but throughout our history, Indigenous veterans have […]
By Yolanda T. Marshall Nadia L. Hohn is one of Canada’s most influential literary voices of Jamaican descent Nadia L. Hohn is one of Canada’s most influential literary voices of Jamaican descent. An erudite educator and a multi-award winning writer of non-fiction, middle-grade, young adult, and picture books. I recall walking into a […]
It was an ambitious plan — to reform the police force from the inside-out, to remove rot and fix a broken culture that dominated headlines. But two years in, Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly has seen his mandate — and the job he and those who hired him sold to the public — change. The […]
The new HIV Self-Testing Community Outreach and Localized Outcomes (SOLO) Study will improve access to HIV testing for Greater Toronto Area (GTA) African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) communities, and collect data on the number of new HIV infections that are discovered. SOLO will also ensure connections to care for participants, and measure the degree to […]
His book, Butterflies in the Trenches, chronicles his life growing up in Toronto Community Housing and his bicycle ride across the country to share his message with Canadians Award-Winning Social Entrepreneur and STEM teacher Curtis Carmichael releases his augmented reality memoirs “Butterflies in the Trenches” today. “Butterflies” is a gripping account of breaking the cycle […]
A police ethics board judge has found two Montreal police officers guilty of racial profiling, using excessive force and illegally searching a 54-year-old Black man. Errol Burke was getting milk at his local Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce convenience store on Feb. 18, 2017, when the officers wrestled him to the ground, searched and handcuffed him. “I’m relieved and […]
Sterling K. Brown will star and executive produce the television adaptation of Washington Black, a globe-trotting historical adventure based on Canadian author Esi Edugyan’s award-winning novel. Hulu, the U.S. digital streaming service, gave Washington Black a straight to series order with Selwyn Seyfu Hinds adapting the book. It will air in Canada on Disney+. Edugyan’s […]
A London native of Jamaican parentage who grew up in Jamaica Charles W. Mills, a social and political philosopher who sought to rethink Western liberalism, arguing that white supremacy undergirded the modern world and that philosophy had ignored fundamental issues of race and justice, died Sept. 20 at a care center in Evanston, Ill. He […]
When the pages of books featured at the 2021 Black and Caribbean Book Affair, October 14 to 17, are turned they will reveal works boldly discussing issues of colour, race, education, discrimination, identity, the COVID-19 pandemic, self-empowerment and more at the virtual and hybrid event. Hosted by A Different Booklist Cultural Centre: The People’s Residence […]
Canada’s leading racially diverse film showcase, the Reelworld Film Festival, stands firm in its continued commitment to exclusively showcasing and investing in Canadian filmmakers who are Indigenous, Black, Asian, South Asian, and People of Colour. Every year, talented filmmakers from diverse communities across Canada claim their own stories and bring their unique perspectives to our […]
