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  • Malcolm X revisited

    The legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. is easily grasped and justly celebrated, more so this Black History Month marking the 50th anniversary of the...
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  • Police coup by press release

    Ontarians may opt on Thursday (June 12) to defeat enough Liberal party candidates to deny Premier Kathleen Wynne the seats to maintain her hold on...
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  • Treaties get Royal kiss-off

    One of the positive consequences of the Idle No More protest movement is its exposure of the failure of the Crown to take its responsibility...
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  • Harper’s insult to our body politic

    In politics, sometimes nothing succeeds like deceit. Thus, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is again warning Canadians that if voters don't give him a majority government...
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  • N-word wickedness

    George Elliott Clarke teaches African-Canadian literature at U of T. His latest book is I & I (Goose Lane, 2009), a 'teenage' poem-novel.An English Prof...
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  • X to King

    Wherever justice is delayed or denied, or where politicos prevent delivery of restitution and redress, change is attempted or wrought by demagogues or prophets, by...
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  • MJ: keepin it real

    There's a "perennial unwillingness to come to terms with the premature or violent death of heroes,'' Jonathan Sumption wrote in the New York Review of...
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  • President of all the world

    It is righteous to see a bro in "da House," especially when he is superbly eloquent, intelligent, classy, sassy, sleek and chic, more or less...
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  • No chivalry for Hillary

    Rating: NNNNNWith Barack Obama poised to win the historic U.S. Democratic party nomination clash with Hillary Clinton, a hitherto unexpected nadir is being reached. Clinton,...
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  • Forget that hes black

    Rating: NNNNNAbout the same time that U.S. senator Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the Democratic partys presidential nomination, the Toronto Star published an op-ed...
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  • Segregation smear

    Rating: NNNNNWhen Austin Clarke came to Toronto from Barbados in 1955, he was shocked to encounter, at Union Station, a black washroom attendant "dressed in...
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  • Slaves to the n-word

    Black History Month Event Listings Rating: NNNNNWhen harvard university law prof Randall Kennedy published Nigger: The Strange Career Of A Troublesome Word, he won his...
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  • Why Caribana shakes up T.O.

    Rating: NNNNNAfrican/Asian/Black/Brown people occupying any nominally "white" space en masse threaten the authorities - the overseers - even though this spectacle is also beautiful and...
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