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TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday May 18, 2022) — American rapper, singer and songwriter, Chuck D, Founder and Leader of the legendary group, Public Enemy, will receive Canadian Music Week’s (CMW) Social Justice Honours Award, next month. Co-founder of the super-group, Prophets ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Thursday May 5, 2022) — Exactly two weeks ago, on April 21, the late jazz and blues icon, Salome Bey, got her rare and classic, self-titled, debut album, Salome Bey, reissued — exactly 52 years after it first ...

By Vinita Srivastava Guest Contributor It felt like these Oscars were the first ones that weren’t actually so white. The whole event felt different. With attempts to display a more inclusive Hollywood, the showcase seemed to go beyond its usual ...

By Neil Armstrong Guest Contributor In 2019, when the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) acquired the Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs (1840-1940), I visited the museum to see some of these images of Caribbean life and history. There was a ...

MONTREAL, Quebec (Thursday, December 9, 2021) — National Film Board of Canada (NFB) Chair, Claude Joli-Coeur, announced, recently, that Rachel Décoste has been appointed as Director, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, a newly-created position. Décoste will be a strategic diversity leader, ...

By Nya Phillips Guest Contributor BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Thursday, December 2, 2021) — International singing sensation, Robyn Rihanna Fenty — the island’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, with specific responsibility for promoting education, tourism and investment — was named the 11th National ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Friday, November 26, 2021) — The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, today, unveiled 1,214 new theatre seats in the main auditorium of the National Cultural Centre. Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr, announced that ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Tuesday, November 23, 2021) — Iconic storyteller, author, teacher and librarian, Dr. Rita Cox, will launch her Wit and Wisdom: Anansi Tales and Other Stories CD during a celebratory event — In Conversation with Rita Cox and Friends ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Tuesday, November 16, 2021) — The Storytelling Foundation of Jamaica, Ntukuma, in association with the Jamaica Library Service, is presenting the National Storytelling Festival and Conference, Ananse Soundsplash 2021, from November 16 to 22, under the theme ‘Visiting ...

By Sarah R. Olutola Guest Contributor Rapper and pop singer Nicki Minaj made headlines after her Sept. 13 tweet about her as-of-yet unidentified cousin’s friend in Trinidad, who was dumped at the altar by his wife-to-be because “the vaccine” — presumably ...