Our human capacity to reflect on our very own lived life experience is clearly independent of any connection to race. Let us, however in this month that focuses on Black History, indulge in a visitation to our collective history as peoples of African descent. It’s a great time to look at the African contribution, often [...]
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Black People
Face to Face With WAYDE COMPTON
on May 1st, 2016
We need to speak out, and to use all venues and channels of distribution. (The Afro News is one excellent example of this.) There is an unfair push to imply that there are few black people in Canada, and in the west in particular. These myths must always be countered. We are here, and we are significant. We must speak that truth, everywhere.
Brown Girl In The Ring: Royalty or Insanity?
on August 18th, 2010
Play is inspired by Sophia Charlotte who is of African and German descent, and was married to the British King George
the III. It is also influenced by the story of Queen Marie Theresa, consort of Louis XIV King of France, who had a black
child. The child was locked away and the public was told that the queen had a miscarriage.
Harry Jerome Memorial-Stanley Park Special Interview By Honore Gbedze
on June 8th, 2010
Sport absolutely gives people opportunity. In Harry’s era, it was a little bit easier for people to see sport as an opportunity rather than as a career. I think our challenge is today that people imagine sport as thing they are going to do, not the thing that will open doors for the great things they are going to do
Think Globally: Changing Population, Environment and Food
By Frank T. Scruggs M.A.Ph.D. The Afro News USA International When venturing away from one’s own city, town or village a keen sense of the vastness of the African Diaspora becomes apparent. Even more people of African descent populate our planet when serious consideration is given to Keith O. Hilton’s TALO theory which explores the [...]