Dear Premier Wynne:   The Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity (NPAS) agrees with your assertion quoted in Share newspaper from your speech at the Liberal Caucus’ Afrikan Liberation Month (aka Black His
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When pondering Black Canadian heroines deserving of profiling for an essay competition, Grade 12 student, Zaena Harrison, did not have to go far to find someone worthy of consideration. That individual was right in her Bramalea Se
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By MURPHY BROWNE   TO BE SOLD   A BLACK WOMAN, named Peggy, aged about forty years; and a Black boy, her son, named Jupiter, aged about fifteen years, both of them the property of the subscri
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By LENNOX FARRELL   Once, way back in the early 1970s, Canada’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) infiltrated organizations of “Toronto’s Black radicals”. The RCMP used an FBI provocateur. He
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By Dr. AJAMU NANGWAYA   We are now in February and for Africans in North America it is a significant month. It is usually observed as Black History Month.   It is taken as an opportunity to a
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When Trinidadian Joe Fortes arrived in Vancouver in 1885 via Britain where he had worked for a few years, little did he know that he would become a celebrated Canadian citizen.   As the city’s first official lifeguard
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Welcome to Black History Month. We hope that you are already enjoying some of the many celebrations taking place. If you need information on upcoming events, you will find a listing in Share each week of this month and on our webs
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When 43-year-old African-Canadian artist Robert Small was growing up, he was inspired by activists such as Dudley Laws and disempowered by the way slavery was depicted in history books.   The self-taught artist, who vis
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By LENNOX FARRELL   Out walking one winter’s day, I was startled by a cyclist who passed me from behind, whisking just past my elbow.   “Use a bell,” I yelled after him.   �
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Black History Month is a timely reminder of the many and varied achievements African-Canadians have made in the province and nationally, says Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor, David Onley.   “For most, especially in th
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