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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Hell on Earth is what it took for Toronto's Black community to enlighten provincial and municipal politicians into effecting in Ontario, for the first time in the history of the Commonwealth, civilian control of policing: Ontario'
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By LENNOX FARRELL Interestingly, and not inaccurately, a 'bad parent', in particular a 'deadbeat dad', is usually described as one having children out of wedlock with different mothers, and who is 'AWOL' physically and otherwise
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In each instance in which Black people lost the Montreal Jazz Festival, saw Toronto's Caribana re-branded, and were forcibly removed from Nova Scotia's Africville, members of a City council played the seminal role.   Howeve
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The Russian novelist, Tolstoy, in 'How much land does a man need?' wrote about a farmer named Pahom. Born very poor, Pahom developed an obsession with owning land. Eventually, the more he got, by fair means or foul, the less able
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