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Canada is not far enough away: Working our personal and political values

November 28, 2016 Dorla Tune 0 Comment Canada

Canadians often vacillate between identifying ourselves as vastly unique from our southern neighbours, when they are acting in a distasteful

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Canada Featured Politics 

Black Lives Matter Vancouver Is Here

April 20, 2016 Dorla Tune 0 Comment Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter Vancouver

On Sunday April 17, 2016 Vancouver, BC witnessed its inaugural Black Lives Matter Vancouver event. Set on the steps of

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Canada People Society 

The National Congress of Black Women Foundation: A Presence Honouring Black Women and Youth in BC

February 6, 2010March 6, 2016 Dorla Tune 1 Comment

The population of people originally hailing from African or Caribbean descent is small in city of Vancouver directly.  Yet one

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Interracial Adoption: The View from Western Canada

June 4, 2009March 4, 2016 Dorla Tune 0 Comment

There are an endless number of paths that bring potential parents to the decision of adopting a child to become

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History Politics 

‘We Don’t Like Brown People’: Why we still have to observe March 21st

March 3, 2009March 3, 2016 Dorla Tune 0 Comment

On March 21, 1960, police in Sharpeville, South Africa gunned down hundreds of peaceful demonstrators.  The protest was organized in

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History 

Black History on the West Coast: Canada

February 1, 2009March 2, 2016 Dorla Tune 0 Comment

When people think of Vancouver and its surrounding areas, Canadians from African or Caribbean backgrounds are not the first ethnic

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Hall of Fame People 

Born Black Hall of Fame: Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989)

January 1, 2009March 1, 2016 Dorla Tune 0 Comment Hall of Fame

The Trinidad and Tobago born historian, novelist, political critic and activist, C.L.R James is considered one of the preeminent political

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Africa Culture History 

Unity: The Foundation of Kwanzaa

January 1, 2009March 3, 2016 Dorla Tune 0 Comment

Kwanzaa may not be a celebration familiar to many Africans recently immigrated to Canada or the United States.  However, it

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