Last week's apology by city of Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly, for the evictions and razing of the African-Canadian community of Africville in Nova Scotia during the 1960s, marks a small but significant moment in the history of slavery and racism in Canada. The official apology issued February...
Posted February 15, 2010 | 10:06:35 (EST)
In the weeks leading up to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), Tourism British Columbia released a new commercial it spent millions of dollars on in order to promote tourism in the province. The fact that most of the world already knew the 2010 winter Olympics were being...
Posted February 8, 2010 | 02:03:29 (EST)
The timing of my reading Belinda's Petition: A Concise History of Reparations For The Transatlantic Slave Trade by Dr. Raymond A. Winbush (2009) coinciding with Black History Month was completely random, but obviously fitting. Back in December 2009, I shot an interview with Dr. Winbush for...
Posted January 4, 2010 | 10:36:13 (EST)
Lisa Solod Warren's December 16th, 2009 article (which she has since been deleted) in The Huffington Post titled "Two Black Role Models Done In By Hubris" invoked a great deal of outrage. I caught wind of the article via Twitter...
Posted December 22, 2009 | 13:51:53 (EST)
Engaging with issues regarding race and racism are critical in the fight for social justice. Due to the inherent complexities of such discussions, they easily become minefields for those who would casually wander such terrain. Two salient examples of such dilettantism from this...
Posted December 3, 2009 | 11:50:00 (EST)
As I am typing this, I am five hours and 25 minutes into a 15+ hour trip on a slow train to Baltimore. I'm en route to D.C. to interview sociologist and author Dr. James Loewen for my documentary...
Posted March 1, 2010 | 07:27:03 (EST)