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  • Black History Month:Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. »

    By CaribbeanTales Staff
    | Posted: January 01, 2006

    A few months ago, on the CBS TV show Sixty Minutes, actor Morgan Freeman told a (strangely) astonished Mike Wallace that he was opposed to Black History Month. He went on to say that Black history was American history, so it should be celebrated on every day of every month in every year. He felt strongly that by consigning Black history only to the month of February, Anerica continued to mirror the ongoing separation of Black folks from mainstream

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    Walk good, Shana »

    By Frances-Anne Solomon | Posted: October 25, 2005

    video.jpg With this issue, CaribbeanTales must say goodbye to Shana Calixte. I have to admit that I’m never really happy when friends leave. Although I usually know that it’s best for them and that they have

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    The islands will speak... »

    CaribbeanTales and Leda Serene Films launch a trio of projects to highlight the work of Caribbean-Canadian storytellers

    By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: October 10, 2005

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    Welcome to the November newsletter issue of CaribbeanTales!

    These past few months have seen a whirlwind in our offices as we prepared to launch three new projects aimed at celebrating the great traditions of Caribbean-Canadian storytelling.

    They include the release

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    Welcome to CaribbeanTales' special Calabash newsletter issue! »

    By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: August 02, 2005

    many-authors-low.jpg This month, we bring you exciting news from the Caribbean Literary Festival, Calabash, which took place this past May. CaribbeanTales was invited to participate in this one of kind gathering,

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    Audio Books from CaribbeanTales »

    New projects in the works

    By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: March 30, 2005

    skincover.jpgThanks to you all for your wonderful feedback.

    CaribbeanTales is excited to share the news that we have received funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation to produce 5 Audio Books of works by Caribbean-Canadian authors.

    Audio

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    We all have stories to tell... »

    On the accessibility and transformative power of storytelling...

    By Shana L. Calixte | Posted: March 16, 2005

    shanaed2.jpgWelcome to the second March edition of the CaribbeanTales newsletter! We have been busy these past 2 weeks to bring you this issue, full of new content, with our brand new interactive design. Many of you have made use of our instant feedback tool, and we hope more of you will let us know what

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    CaribbeanTales celebrates its First Anniversary! »

    By Frances-Anne Solomon | Posted: March 02, 2005

    fa_hs_1.jpg CaribbeanTales was born of a dynamic need to house our stories, and to build community and connections. We wanted to reach across differences and limitations of time, place and ideology; to use all forms available to us - modern and ancestral, manual and electronic, analogue and digital - to create,

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    Our Apologies »

    By CaribbeanTales Technical Coordinator | Posted: March 01, 2005

    Unfortunately this week, CaribbeanTales ran into some techinical difficulties with our server, which means that our special Black History Month edition is coming out later than we had hoped. We apologize for this, but hope you will enjoy our latest issue, with our new, interactive design. Look out for two new issues in March!

    We would also like to note that in our last issue, we mistakenly misprinted the article ‘Nappiness’ Is A Gift,

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