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  • Black music matters: Caribana weekend is bursting with shows

    The Toronto Caribbean Carnival (please note: little to no Black or Caribbean people call it this - we call it Caribana) sits alongside Afrofest as...
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  • TDot vs the 6

    It's true: hip-hop has grown up and left the 'hood. Just witness the number of times hip-hop's gift to Hogtown, the term "TDot," has gotten...
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  • Movin’ on up

    The UN has declared 2015-24 the International Decade For People Of African Descent. It's true. Our South Korean soldier in the struggle, United Nations Secretary-General...
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  • How being black became the new black

    It's both an infuriating and an exhilarating time to be black. Mainstream media equity has run amok. We've been making all kinds of daily news...
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  • Rhyme for reason

    Rating: NNNNNNewark, New Jersey - Is my hiphop generation finally waking from its BET-induced slumber? I ponder this as I enter the Metropolitan Baptist Church...
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  • Rap’s Bush attack

    Rating: NNNNNWhile the democrats are confident they've got the perfect Ivy League veteran to pry power from the Republicans, generation rap is honing its own...
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  • Black Market

    Rating: NNNNNmedia hounds monitoring televisionland's colour code are getting fed up with poring through mounds of bureaucratic ink, parsing dense annual equity reports and hearing...
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  • White boobs on the tube

    Rating: NNNNNwith my remote control, a notepad and some leftover red snapper with rice and peas, I took a peek at how Global TV's news...
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  • Going against the flow

    Rating: NNNNNno amount of divine intervention can spare Flow 93.5's higher-ups from reggae wrath in yet another instalment of Reggae Musicians Versus Toronto's Urban Radio...
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  • CBC Race Ruckus

    Rating: NNNNNa young black male walks with a pronounced swagger, smokes joints freely, then downs a couple of gulps of brew. Another plays basketball all...
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  • Six months of FLOW 93.5

    Rating: NNNNNthe airwaves have never been the same since FLOW 93.5 hit the ether on February 9. As the station flicked on its signal in...
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  • T.O. hot for slave debate

    Rating: NNNNNmel's-gotta-go protests aside, demands for reparations have zoomed to the top of black activists' to-do lists. On this warm Saturday (July 28), the African...
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  • Slaves in Canada

    Rating: NNNNNblack activists were miffed re-cently when the TV show Counterspin featured a program on slave reparations that focused almost exclusively on the U.S. Pre-interviewed...
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  • Rhymes with peace

    Rating: NNNNNA two-storey detached house in the St. Clair West-Arlington Avenue area is home to a huge, youth-driven grassroots movement against violence. NAnd as the...
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