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Fanta Ongoiba: Toronto's Passionate Advocate Who Is Making Headways

Samuel Getachew | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada Impact
Read More: Canadian-Impact, K'naan, HIV/AIDS Africa, African-Canadian, Stephen Lewis, Fanta Ongoiba, Africans in Partnership Against HIV/AIDS, Canada Impact News
Samuel Getachew

The lakeside village of Port Stanton is an almost two hours' drive away from Toronto. Located near the City of Orillia, ON -- the seaside cottage comm...

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Should Idle No More Include African Canadians?

Rachel Décoste | Posted 03.10.2013 | Canada Politics
Read More: Idle No More Protest, African-Canadian, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Black Canadians, Canada Aboriginals, Aboriginal Canadians, Idle No More, Idle No More Includes, Canada Politics News
Rachel Décoste

There is a small but vocal fringe in the Idle No More movement which advocates for the deportation of said "settlers". This unfortunate sentiment has turned potential friends into foes -- especially in the black community where it's a chilling reminder of the first time Africans were forced to traverse the Middle Passage. The similarities between aboriginals and black Canadians abound: both were oppressed people, both were driven/captured from their homelands by mostly Europeans. Both were dehumanized and denigrated as wild, suspicious and uncivilized.

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The RNC Needs a Diversity Makeover

Donald D'Haene | Posted 11.11.2012 | Canada
Read More: Mitt Romney, Politics, African-Canadian, Preston Manning, Reform Party, Republican Party, Republican Convention, Republicans, Canada News
Donald D'Haene

The Republican convention's most telling moments happened every time the camera scanned the delegates in Tampa, Florida. Yes, it was a 2012 political convention but it still looked predominantly white from my vantage point. Republicans could take a paint-by-number lesson from Canada's political play book -- primarily from one Preston Manning.

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How I Realized I Was Part Black

Dianne Lawrence | Posted 10.31.2012 | Canada
Read More: Black American, Rnc, Yahoo! Fired, African Canadian, Fired Yahoo, Race, African American, Race Relations, Black Canadian, Canada News
Dianne Lawrence

My second "wow" moment came as I made friends with my black neighbours and they asked me about my racial background. I would tell them I wasn't sure and they would invariably tell me I looked like a family member or a good friend who was considered "high yellow." High yellow blacks often pass for white. So at the age of 29 my identity as a white person ended..

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