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A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters.

Author Archives: Evelyn C. White

Evelyn C. White is a journalist and author whose books include Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships (Seal Press, 1985,) The Black Women’s Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves (Seal Press, 1990,) and the biography Alice Walker: A Life (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.)

A muddy trail runs through a forest of tall redwoods with a blanket of ferns on the forest floor. The sun is peering in among the trees.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia

‘You are not white men’: whispers to the redwoods and bros who forgot who they are

A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters. by Evelyn C. White February 3, 2023February 3, 2023

A message to five former Memphis police officers as we mark African Heritage Month and fifty-five years after the murder of Dr. King,

A burgundy and beige toy car sits on a table
Posted inArts and Culture, Commentary

Botswana, Bessie Head, a Rolls Royce, and the privilege of regular

A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters. by Evelyn C. White September 27, 2022January 9, 2023
Two women sit at a bar and are approached by a man
Posted inArts and Culture, Commentary

Finding a balm in the stories at FIN Atlantic International Film Festival

A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters. by Evelyn C. White September 13, 2022January 9, 2023
An apple pie on a dark wood table next to two red apples
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia, Commentary

The hallowed and ever-sustaining shrine of homemade pies

A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters. by Evelyn C. White August 17, 2022January 9, 2023
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia, Commentary

Talk back and taking back the stage for the Singing Miner of Springhill

A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters. by Evelyn C. White April 20, 2022October 20, 2022
A collage by the artist Anne Misfeldt. It's layered pieces of yellowed paper, some transparent, some with typewritten text, and some darker brown paper or fabric. There's an old black and white photo of a little white girl holding a doll nearly as big as her, and the whole thing is stiched together with rough brown thread.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia, Commentary, Profiles

Collage of life: reflections on a friendship with the most unlikely companions

A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters. by Evelyn C. White February 18, 2022October 20, 2022
Posted inCommentary, Health

How the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre is dealing with “a challenging time”

A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters. by Evelyn C. White January 20, 2022October 20, 2022
The atrium at the Halifax Central Library. Below you can see the main floor, and above you can see the skylight, with the staircases cris crossing in the middle of the photo.
Posted inCommentary

How the Halifax Library is helping trans people

A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters. by Evelyn C. White November 25, 2021October 20, 2022
A collage of three of the publicity photos of films at the FIN Festival, comprising three Indigenous youths, a Black man and Black woman, and a young white transgender woman.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia, Commentary

FIN International film festival gives voice to marginalized groups

A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters. by Evelyn C. White September 17, 2021October 20, 2022
Evelyn White, wearing a red Tshirt and red cap, stands in her garden pointing towards where she saw the cardinal.
Posted inBlack Nova Scotia, Commentary

Sunday is Emancipation Day; I’ll be celebrating with Corey Wright’s watermelon mango ale and pointing to freedom

A Black woman with short hair and round black framed glasses, wearing a multi coloured dashiki. She is standing with her right fist raised, in front of a mural of Arethan Franklin with the word 'Respect' in big red letters. by Evelyn C. White July 29, 2021October 20, 2022

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A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents

PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.


Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

2020 MASS MURDERS

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.


UNCOVER: DEAD WRONG

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

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Halifax landlord Peppermint Properties using fixed-term leases to clear out units, jack up rents

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by Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter March 16, 2023March 17, 2023

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