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‘Keep your doors open’ — Joy, pride and life lessons as 100 Black boys graduate from summer program
Strong Academy’s four-week program for boys 11 to 14 aims to inspire them about higher education, and careers they might not ...
25 books by Black Canadian authors to read in honour of Emancipation Day 2025
Aug. 1 marks Emancipation Day in Canada. Here are 25 books by Canadian authors that examine themes of racial and social ...
‘If you see it, you can be it’: How this Toronto program is teaching Black boys to see futures they never saw before
Strong Academy’s four-week program for boys 11 to 14 aims to inspire them about higher education, and careers they might not ...
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Thinking of Joining in Protest? Three Books to Inspire
The foreword to Blockade was written by Canadian author and poet Joy Kogawa, a friend of both Patricia and Christine Lowther. Kogawa says this about the book: “Chris takes us into the forest, into the ...
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Former BC NDP minister's book tells of gender-based violence, a story she knows well
Former British Columbia legislator Katrina Chen sits on a couch in her Burnaby home, reading aloud from the children's book ...