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For Jamillah Jean, the journey that led to founding Routes to Rootz was deeply personal. What began as a search for healing during one of the most difficult seasons...

In a conversation with the CONTACT, that moved from Montreal’s Black media legacy to the backroads of Mississippi, author and longtime community advocate Fred Anderson didn’t just detail what...

When Latoya Belfon sat down to write her first book in 2020, her only goal was to learn how to publish it. She had no plans to start a...

This November, Black Theatre Workshop (BTW) returns to the Segal Centre for Performing Arts Studio with Our Place, a stirring and often humorous exploration of Canada’s immigration system. Written...

When Arlene Bryant walks through the streets of Châteauguay, people know her by name. They wave, smile, or stop her to talk about their neighborhoods, roads, or children. And...

Carol-Ann Hoyte didn’t plan on politics. The Côte-des-Neiges native, mother, poet and 24-year veteran of children’s literature explains to the CONTACT, “the opportunity found me.” Now she’s running for...

Born in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Jean-François Kacou has built an extraordinary path that now places him at the center of Montréal’s political stage. After studies in mathematics in Bordeaux,...

NDG knows Renate Betts. Long before she put her name on a ballot, she was the neighbour organizing after-school programs at Westhaven Community Centre, the voice at board tables...

Gemma Raeburn-Baynes received the Medal of the National Assembly of Quebec from Brigitte B. Garceau, MNA for Robert-Baldwin, during Playmas Montreal Cultural Association’s 25th-anniversary celebration on Friday, Oct. 3,...

When Alexis Maniatis thinks back on her childhood, the kitchen is where her memories gather. “My grandmother always was teaching me how to cook,” she says, smiling. “We were...