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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 society.
We agree with Morgan Freeman. And encouraged by his conviction as well as by the memory of George Santayana’s
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Stephanie Martin's Art Gallery »
By CaribbeanTales Staff | Posted: February 16, 2006
Of course, artists that paint and draw are also storytellers. And the wonderful thing about this form of artistic expression is that each person will see and interpret the story through her or his own unique and personal lens. Here we show four recent paintings by Stephanie Martin. Inside, click on each one. We hope you will enjoy them as much as we do. Because this is the first time we've done this, we'd love you to let us know what you think in the feedback section below.
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Contributors this month »
By CaribbeanTales Staff
| Posted: February 09, 2006
Maud Fuller's contribution records the service that was held last October to commemorate the University of the West Indies Founders’ Day. For the past eighteen years, she has been the driving force in the UWI Alumni Toronto Chapter. Maud has had an outstanding professional career as a classroom teacher. She is also an Instructor/Lecturer with the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Education where she is dedicated to the cause of interpreting the Caribbean child to Canadian teachers.
Adrian Harewood has written an exceptionally
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Choosing Exile: Extract from Panel Presentation at National Black Writers' Conference 1996 »
By Stephanie Martin
| Posted: January 01, 2006
I am a publisher of Black women’s writing and I live in Canada. Over the past twenty-seven years, I have hammered out an uneasy truce with the country I refer to as “where I live,” but seldom as home. I’m a Jamaican-born painter and I got into publishing over ten years ago because I was vexed. I was vexed because I love literature and I could not find books that spoke to me of experiences that I as familiar with. As a woman of colour living in the north of Metropole, anything that I did dig up I really had to scrunt for.
I was vexed because no-one, not even
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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 the side veranda of her home read:
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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 actually set -- a typical downtown Toronto multi-racial, working-class community. Michele Lonsdale Smith, who came from Vancouver to direct the play,
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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. Readers read with passion. Speakers spoke from the heart. The readiness with which people agreed to be part of the program was a
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Raynier Maharaj: Managing Editor, Caribbean Camera »
By Tisha Marajh | Posted: February 07, 2006
This article by Tisha Marajh features the illustrious career of the Managing Editor of the Canadian-based Caribbean Camera. Raynier Maharaj is one of the many Caribbean folk that now call Canada home. Through the development of the Caribbean Camera newspaper, he has carved a unique path in marrying his Caribbean and Canadian perspectives. Tisha met with Raynier at the Caribbean Camera offices in Scarborough
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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 does.
If only for this reason, CaribbeanTales would feel compelled to bring her book If only for this reason, CaribbeanTales would feel compelled to bring her book ... Read Full Article »
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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 Elliott Clarke and Nalo Hopkinson were just some of the authors present. It was somewhat curious, given the august assembly, that the
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