Institutional Inaction on Truro Police Incident Speaks Loudly to Black Nova Scotians
A year has passed since a deeply troubling incident within the Truro Police Service, where a white officer threw a banana peel – a gesture widely recognized as a blatant racist trope – on the personal vehicle of a Black fellow officer.
Wendie Wilson created an African Nova Scotian flag; some in the community say no one asked them about it
Wanda Thomas (not to be confused with Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard) said she had never heard of the African Nova Scotian flag. It wasn’t until her grandson had coloured a paper version of the flag as part of an activity through his school’s African Nova Scotian student support worker program when she said she first learned of it. She said she asked around and no one she knew had heard of it either.