By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Editor In a recent conversation, Denise Herrera-Jackson, the CEO of the Festival Management Committee (FMC), the organization which has run the Caribana festival for the past five
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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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By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Editor I watched, in dismay, the news on television last week Wednesday when a number of folks were shown at the podium announcing the name change for this year’s Caribana festiv
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