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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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Applause for A Winter Tale »
By Gwyneth Cumberbatch | Posted: February 07, 2006
The CaribbeanTales production A Winter Tale had an amazingly successful five-day run at the Alchemy Theatre at the beginning of Black History Month. On the following weekend, it played for two nights at the Mazaryk Cowan Community Centre in Parkdale, the neighbourhood where the story is
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And did we give thanks! »
By Maud Fuller
| Posted: December 28, 2005
The University of the West Indies Commemoration / Founders Day Thanksgiving Service of October 16, 2005 demonstrated unmistakably the degree of love, respect and gratitude that “old-timers” have for their alma mater.
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Evadne »
By Pat Riviere | Posted: February 06, 2006
Over the past two years, Mr. and Mrs Jude Everdean awoke on Saturdays at precisely 4:30 a.m -- she from a husbandless bed, and he from the arms of his mistress, Maria Lopez. Arising briskly, Evadne Everdean would be out of her empty bed before her husband could disentangle from Maria. Evadne often longed to linger, to surrender to the peaceful darkness that engulfed her but she did not. Saturday was Baking Day. A hand-painted sign over
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Revival: An Anthoglogy of Black Canadian Writing »
By Gwyneth Cumberbatch
| Posted: February 11, 2006
Shortly after the first edition of this newsletter was published, Donna Bailey Nurse was one of the first people to say how much she liked it. CaribbeanTales staff were thrilled. Since then she has remained close, supportive and always interested in everything that CaribbeanTales
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A View for Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks on the Caribbean, Cricket, Montreal and C.L.R. James: Part I »
By Adrian Harewood
| Posted: February 07, 2006
In the fall of 1995 a few dozen of the top writers in Canada’s literary firmament gathered at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa to take part in the Black Writers Conference. Andre Alexis, George
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