The Ballad Of Crowfoot is a short film made by the National Film Board of Canada. It is available on the Internet on YouTube [website below].   This short film, useful as an educational tool, or for information and disc
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It is noteworthy that within one organization built by Black people, the International Services African Bureau, that after WWII, almost every Black country that achieved independence, be it in Africa or in the Caribbean, had a lea
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What does the independence of former British West Indian territories like Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Belize, St. Kitts & Nevis, Guyana and others have in common with the independence of African countries like Ghana, Kenya
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By LENNOX FARRELL In 1959, Kwame Nkrumah, then President of Ghana, wept publicly over the burial of a Black West Indian. The ashes of this man, who had died in London, had been flown, at the request of the Ghanaian president, t
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By LENNOX FARRELL What memories and historical parallels might Ethiopian Orthodox Rabbi Sharon Shalom, visiting from Israel, stir among Caribbean peoples in Toronto? For one thing, the old people usually referr
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By LENNOX FARRELL Ethiopian-born Rabbi Sharon Shalom, who now lives in Israel, will visit Toronto on Sunday April 15. This visit will be unique in several ways. Among other things, he wants to connect with memb
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By LENNOX FARRELL What is worse than being in a war? Not knowing you’re in one. Or pretending that while others and their children might be in one, you and yours sure ain’t!     And there
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By LENNOX FARRELL There are more wealthy Black people in Ontario today than ever before. There are more Black professionals – lawyers, doctors, engineers, scientists, teachers, writers, etc. There are more te
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By LENNOX FARRELL In Canada, there are three levels of government: federal, provincial/territorial and municipal. There is, however, one level of governance: communal.     While government pr
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According to education officials in the U.S., such as Lesley Morrow, past president of the International Reading Association of America, projecting future needs for prison population beds is based, in some states, on the reading s
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