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Why you should care about the Crown’s problematic case against Randy Riley

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The prosecution of Randy Riley rests on racist tropes of violent and animalistic Black men and a vulnerable, unquestionable white woman - By: El Jones - [CLICK THE PHOTO TO READ THE ARTICLE]
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Why you should care about the Crown’s problematic case against Randy Riley - By: Tim Bousquet (Halifax Examiner/Halifax Examiner.ca) - [CLICK THE PHOTO TO READ THE ARTICLE]
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Riley trial: Witness admits she lied multiple times in previous testimony, including when her testimony resulted in a murder conviction for another man - By: Tim Bousquet (Halifax Examiner/Halifax Examiner.ca) - [CLICK THE PHOTO TO READ THE ARTICLE]
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Riley trial: the Crown’s own expert witness undermines Crown’s case - By: Tim Bousquet (Halifax Examiner/Halifax Examiner.ca) - [CLICK THE PHOTO TO READ THE ARTICLE]
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Dr. Barb Hamilton-Hinch, is an associate professor in recreation and leisure studies, and assistant vice‑provost, equity and inclusion, at Dalhousie University. Photo: Matthew Byard

Dr. Barb Hamilton-Hinch explores the stories of loss and grief in the Black community

“We don’t think about loss with land, we don’t think about loss with education and culture, we don’t think about the impact of … post- traumatic slave syndrome, and how we’ve been impacted by that,” Dalhousie professor says in episode of new web series.

Wayne Parker, Tyrell Johnson, Tyler Maxwell, and Novaro Mentis compete at the 2021 Apex Invitational Golf Tournament in Truro. Photo: Wayne Parker

Annual Black golf tournament returns to Truro [2021]

Second only to the African United Baptist Association’s (AUBA) annual general meeting, Apex is one of the longest-running annual gatherings of Black people in all Atlantic Canada.

Apex was started by a former Truro resident Darrell Maxwell in 1974. It was originally called The Black Golf Tournament and had just under a dozen Black golfers.

Josh Crawford speaks about the donation center that’s opened in the historic church to help displaced people from the wildfires

Beechville Baptist Church steps up [VIDEO]

Josh Crawford speaks to Global News Halifax’s Amber Fryday about the donation center that’s opened in the historic church to help displaced people from the wildfires.

Posted June 5 2023 08:25am via: Global News Halifax

The candidates in the Preston riding (left to right): Angela Simmonds (Liberal), Archy Beals (PC), and Colter Simmonds (NDP)

For the first time in Nova Scotia election history, all the candidates in one riding are Black

Angela Simmonds, Archy Beals, and Colter Simmonds are running in the riding of Preston.

Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella speaks during a meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. He is scheduled to testify in the Kayla Borden appeal hearing this Thursday in Burnside.

Borden’s lawyer, board chair debate line of questioning around systemic racism during constable’s testimony

Andrew Gough, the lawyer representing the Halifax Regional Police, openly scoffed and laughed at the notion that the denial of systemic racism within the HRP by one of its officers would be evidence, in of itself, of systemic racism within the force.

“On the week of the 75th anniversary of Viola Desmond’s courageous stand against racism & segregation, Marci Ien came to #Halifax to meet with black women leaders about the path forward.”

Closed-door meeting on Black women in leadership raises concerns for province’s only Black female political science professor

“It is not the role of the Liberal Party to reach into other people’s communities and determine what leadership looks like,” writes El Jones in letter to Andy Fillmore about meeting hosted by MP Marci Ien.