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Toronto’s ace pannist and composer, Joy Lapps offers her first full-length album, Girl in the Yard, which was launched on July 8 as a tribute to the many women...

This past May, H. Nigel Thomas added to his impressive list of achievements when he was awarded the 2022 Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize. He is one...

Thirty-eight years ago when Archdeacon James W. Bennett introduced himself to Montrealers on the pulpit of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Cote des Neiges, the Black and Caribbean community...

What a day, Wednesday, May 18 turned out to be for the Johnson family. Especially for the parents, Dr. Dexter Johnson and Dr. Anita Brown-Johnson, who had to navigate...

Lisa Dennis knows a thing or two about the brain. Most importantly she knows of its capacity for rehabilitation. So for the past two decades this former Montrealer’s focus...

To many of us, she is just cousin Marilyn but Marilyn Turner-Collins is well-known for the comfort and joy she brings to family and friends with all her little...

Organizers of the West Island Blues Fest recently launched the 2022 edition of the popular outdoor festival of music, family fun and food. After cancellation in 2020 and a...

There was a time when the Quebec education system was even less accommodating to Black students than it appears to be today. A time when many students coming to...

It’s not unusual that Vernon Maytone has chosen to give his fans an extra servings of his musical delights by jam-packing his latest CD, Different Time with 18 tracks...

As minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion, Ahmed Hussen is keenly focussed on the predicaments in housing that confronts Black Canadian communities and his government’s efforts to help...