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#1792Project still writing letters to Black Loyalists who left Nova Scotia 230 years ago

April 13, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

A project commemorating the 1,196 Black Loyalists who left Nova Scotia’s shores in 1792 is still collecting letters, according to one of the organizers. #1792Project is an advocacy and letter-writing campaign aimed at educating people about the history of the 1,196 Black Loyalists who, in January of 1792, left Nova Scotia aboard 15 ships on […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, News Tagged With: Africa, Africa Nova Scotia, African Canadians, African Nova Scotia, African Nova Scotia history, Black Loyalists, Black Nova Scotians, Black women, Black women organizers, Sierra Leone, slavery, slavery in Nova Scotia, women

Richard Preston: “The founder of the Black Nova Scotian community”

Preston, who started the African Chapel, the African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia, and the African Abolition Society, is one of the public's suggestions for names to replace Cornwallis Street.

February 7, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

One name the public suggested for the renaming of Cornwallis Street in Halifax is Richard Preston, who was the founder and first reverend of the newly named New Horizons Baptist Church, located on Cornwallis Street. Originally called the African Chapel — and later the Cornwallis Street Baptist Church — the church was founded on April […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, Profiles Tagged With: Abolition Act of 1833, African Abolition Society, African Chapel, African United Baptist Association, Black Cultural Centre, Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia, Black Loyalists, Black Refugees, CBC, Cornwallis Street Baptist Church, Edward Cornwallis, Frances Willick, Isaac Saney, John Burton, Mi'kmaq, New Horizons Baptist Church, Preston, Richard Preston, War of 1812

“Do right by me”: by not addressing the systematic racism of street checks, the white power structure is doubling down on Nova Scotia’s well-earned reputation for ignorance, stigma, and stench

May 21, 2019 By Evelyn C. White 4 Comments

“Until you do right by me, everything you think about is gonna crumble.” Voiced by Whoopi Goldberg in her role as Celie in the film adaptation of The Color Purple, the line has recently wafted, repeatedly, through my mind. To be sure, the thought has been prompted by the magnificent production of The Color Purple […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Province House Tagged With: African Nova Scotians, Afua Cooper, Ban the Box, Birchtown, Black Loyalists, Christine Saulnier, Devah Pager, Ellen Page, Environmental Racism, Halifax Police, inclusive education program, Ingrid Waldron, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Nova Scotia Department of Education, Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, Racism, Scot Wortley, street checks, Underground Railroad, white power structure

Lincolnville and the case for reparations: Morning File, Tuesday, February 13, 2018

February 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Susie Butlin Jennifer Henderson reports: Judge Al Bégin signed a no-contact order to keep Junior Duggan away from Susie Butlin. Duggan is now charged with murdering Butlin. Should Judge Bégin recuse himself from hearing the murder case? Click here to read “Judge may be asked to step away from Butlin murder case.” This article […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Pottyondy Stoffer, Andrew Rankin, Black Loyalists, King's College and slavery, Lincolnville and reparations, Pedestrian struck Gottingen Street, Peter Stoffer's wife, reparations for slavery, Sherri Borden Colley, Stephen Archibald and calling cards, William Lahey

“Hell to the no. We’re outta here.”

Fleeing Nova Scotia for Africa, Black Loyalists, in their “reverse migration,” had rendered themselves vulnerable to a still robust slave trade that was not abolished, within the British Empire, until 1834. Think about it.

February 9, 2018 By Evelyn C. White 1 Comment

There was no love lost between me and a bland fruit that routinely found its way into my childhood home in northwest Indiana. That sentiment changed when, at age 21, I nibbled the same fruit (between sips of palm wine) at a gathering in Ghana. “Who knew it tasted so good?” I marvelled while savouring […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Black Loyalist Heritage Society President Charles Smith, Black Loyalists, Charla Williams, Elmina Castle, Evelyn White, Ghana, Marjorie Turner-Bailey, Sylvia Hamilton, Vanessa Fells

PRICED OUT

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.

2020 mass murders

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

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. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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