Dr. Kamau Braithwaite: A Caribbean man of letters Caribbean News

Dr. Kamau Braithwaite: A Caribbean man of letters

Remembered as titan of Caribbean Literature by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Motley Contact Staff With the passing of Dr. Kamau Brtaithwithe on February 4, the Caribbean lost one of...

Remembering Tony “Tiger” Teemal Community News

Remembering Tony “Tiger” Teemal

Contact Staff News of the passing of Raymond Tony Teemal spread across our community like a wildfire on the hills of the northern range in Trinidad and Tobago and...

Carla Beauvais turns advocacy and organizing into empowerment
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Carla Beauvais turns advocacy and organizing into empowerment

Contact Staff The way Carla Beauvais sees it, Black History Month comes as a reminder for us as a community to get our act together: to reflect and figure...

Koffee’s Blessings  From on High
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Koffee’s Blessings From on High

The youngest and the first female solo act to win the Grammy for the Best Reggae Album Contact Staff Probably it’s too much of a cliché but here goes:...

Mamba Mentality Lives On
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Mamba Mentality Lives On

Rosie Awori Let’s remember Kobe Bryant. The 6 foot 6 inch scoring machine was the first guard to be drafted from high school into the NBA in 1996 as...

Dr. Michael Baffoe marks his spot at the University of Manitoba Special Features

Dr. Michael Baffoe marks his spot at the University of Manitoba

Former Black Star executive director named Chair of Ph.D. program in the Social Work Faculty Contact Staff Former Montrealer Dr. Michael Baffoe continues to scale the ladder of academia...

Trouble in the Evening
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Trouble in the Evening

I begin this tale from Trinidad. My wife Adiylah and I had just returned to Canada from Trinidad in mid-January 2020. We were on an extended 7-week trip to...

Remember the words of Dr. King Jr. and embrace your value Church & GospelOpinions

Remember the words of Dr. King Jr. and embrace your value

As we are in the second month of the year, the month that has been dedicated to Black history, we must talk about our story. As a Black race,...

DISCOVERING HEMA QUEBEC: Give Blood, Save a Life
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DISCOVERING HEMA QUEBEC: Give Blood, Save a Life

Gemma Raeburn-Baynes In 2020, Héma–Quebec, a strategic partner of the Quebec health system, is embarking on a marketing campaign to recruit 1,000 new blood donors from the Black community....