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By Rupert Johnson Since the resumption of the Duffy trial a couple of weeks ago, I have watched with amazement and bated breath, the shenanigans and earth-shattering spectacle of this particular trial. I have been bombarded with an unprecedented litany ...

The following is a statement from the African Canadian Legal Clinic (ACLC), issued on Monday, August 10, 2015. In two recent articles published by the Toronto Star, Mike McCormack, the President of the Toronto Police Association (TPA), denied the existence of anti-Black ...

By Rupert Johnson PRIDE Columnist Once again the annual Calypso Extravaganza, staged at the Chinese Cultural Centre at 5183 Sheppard Ave. East on Saturday, July 25, 2015, was indeed an enjoyable event. It is regrettable that the traditional Calypso Monarch ...

By Rupert Johnson PRIDE Columnist I was really taken aback when I listened to a very shocking and disturbing report on PBS, with regard to the continued barbaric practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) commonly referred to as “cutting,” particularly ...

Black Americans are increasingly uneasy about race relations in the United States, ranking that as the nation’s No. 1 problem along with unemployment, according to a new Gallup poll. Much of their concern, which began growing last year, is driven ...

By Dr. Peter Sealy PRIDE Columnist What’s wrong with the Black men? Why are some of them treating their women so badly? It may be disheartening to know, that some Black men treat their women, as if they are not ...

By Justice Romain Pitt PRIDE Guest Writer Is the government of Ontario contemplating an amendment or amendments to the Police Act to confer more power on the police? Why all of a sudden some important people are trying to regularize ...

By Ajamu Nangwaya PRIDE Guest Writer The news of Canadian Senator Don Meredith’s expulsion from the parliamentary caucus of the ruling Conservative Party of Canada, based on an allegation of sexual relations with a 16-year-old girl was greeted with shame, ...

By Rupert Johnson Wednesday, June 17, 2015 was indeed a Day of Infamy in South Carolina, for on that fateful day nine innocent Black worshippers in the Emanuel A.M.E church were brutally gunned down by a white supremacist. There is ...

By Sandy Daley Martin Luther King must have had the community of Charleston on his mind when he said, “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of ...