The Windsor Black community is feels “insulted” on hearing the news that to Sergeant Kent Rice will be the president of the Windsor Police Association (WPA). In 2015, Rice was demoted for 18 months from first class, to second-class constable in September 2015 after an excessive force incident. In 2012, surveillance video showed a Black […]
By Stephen Weir Although this will be the first year that Windsor will have an African/Caribbean outdoor downtown festival; WIDA FEST will have an experienced festival hand on the tiller. Chris Alexander, a long-time event organizer and former Chief Operating Officer of the Toronto Caribbean Carnival, is now the festival’s vice-president and is assisting in […]
Caribbean Canadian author Suzette Mayr never did tell her bookstore audience how she travelled to Windsor to kick-off Black History Month in Canada’s most southern city. One would forgive the recent winner of the $100,000 Giller fiction prize for passing up on a train ticket and flying in to speak at this standing-room only event. […]
