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22.01.2010
What a Law! |
| Writer 99
Shhhhhhhh! Oh that pathetic moment again. My cellmate is peeing again. I am on the upper bed and he is on bottom one. He is peeing right in the cell where there is a commode, but no lead.
My fault was that I worked outside - off campus. Being an international student, the so-called rules stated I couldn’t work off campus..
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22.01.2010
Home Away from Home |
| Michael K. Bosompra
I had never heard of a show like Stomp. Maybe that’s what intrigued me so much. Stomp is a musical group and concert unlike any other ...
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22.01.2010
OBHS Bus Trips |
| Stanley C. Lartey
Negro Creek Road was my first OBHS Trip on Saturday, June 15, 1996. At that time, there was controversy sounding the name of the road ...
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22.01.2010
Racial Profiling |
Harmony Hussey
The experience of racial profiling which I witnessed occurred in the summer of 2000. It was after dark and I was walking along Lakeshore Blvd. West with two white, teenage friends of mine ... |
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22.01.2010
My Story |
Joyce Jones
My parents were poor sharecroppers and we lived in the rural area of Arkansas. Once a month during the summer, my parents would take us into Marianna - a small town shaped in a square with a park in the center ... |
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22.01.2010
As seen from the Downtown Train |
John Devenish
Heading downtown from Scarborough late in the week I was lost, as usual, in daydreams and people watching. The usual commuter mix was on the train, suburban hardcore urbanites, fashionistas, mallrats, afterwork business folks, retail workers and all manner and level of healthcare professionals.. |
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22.01.2010
Growing Up Black in Ottawa |
John Devenish
By the time I was in the sixth grade around 1975, I had one of those close cropped afros like Lionel on All In The Family ... |
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22.01.2010
WITNESSING HISTORY @ BLOOR CINEMA |
Kobi Annobil
Inside the Bloor Cinema, it felt like a Saturday matinee – the crowd cheered Michelle Obama as she made an appearance with Laura Bush and booed the smirking wheelchair bound Dick Cheney. Former Presidents arrived one by one. George HW Bush and the incumbent were both roundly derided, while the Clintons and Jimmy Carter received their own ovations. Slowly but surely, the parade of men and women who history has judged to be either heroes or villains continued, until there was only one man left to take the stage. CNN cameras zoomed in on Barack Hussein Obama, cool as ever, staring straight ahead as his name was announced ... |
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22.01.2010
Colored’s Exit at the Rear |
Marianna Slaten
In my world Philomene was the only warm and kind person in that sterile environment. I liked to talk to her while she ironed, because she actually conversed with me, unlike the other adults. Philomeme was African American |
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22.01.2010
Cost of Caring |
Dr. Terry McQuaid
One might raise a frowned eyebrow to a professional member of our community who raises questions around how we mobilize as individuals for the “good” of the community at-large. And yet, knowing it may result in discord, I am willing to take that risk. ... |
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22.01.2010
High School Jitters |
Michael K. Bosompra
It began about a week before the start of the 2001-2002 school year. I was bragging to my friends about entering Grade 9 at North Toronto Collegiate Institute and anticipating how great high school would be ... |
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22.01.2010
Mom's Story |
James Wayner
In the early to mid sixties, my parents and I would sit and watch the riots down in the States. We watch policeman beating coloured people over the head. It also showed shops, restaurants, and water fountains having “White Only signs”. We would all say, 'glad we do not have that in Canada'.... |
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22.01.2010
Raps Play Jazz |
 Stanley C. Lartey
Tuesday, December 19, 2000. Toronto Raptors were playing the Utah Jazz at the Air Canada Centre. For the first time as a Raptors fan, I sat in one of the Executive Loge Suites - LS519 to be precise ... |
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22.01.2010
Is it Fair? |
Yvonne Gregory
I have been living in this country with my family for the past 13 years. Allow me to share my story because I have got a lot to say ... READ MORE |
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22.01.2010
Understanding Black History |
 Jacklyn Blocker Scaife
As a little child growing up in the American South, I never had the opportunity to experience much. I always wanted to know my background history. I just didn't know where to search ... |
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