Raymond Sheppard: Fed up with racist policing
Raymond Sheppard on the George Floyd verdict and why Canadians shouldn’t be smug about policing in Canada.
Racism
Press release: Local Black Lives Matter solidarity fund to share $300k throughout province
Press release: The Black Lives Matter Solidarity Fund NS (Fund) has partnered with Black community organizations to distribute over $200,000 to support community projects, large and small, in rural and metropolitan areas throughout the province.
Raymond Sheppard: All hands on deck to beat racists and racism
Raymond Sheppard: It is not enough just to speak the truth inside our homes or as a one-on-one with another African Nova Scotian. Action toward our true emancipation is crucial and critical.
Chronicles of a mixed girl – Dating edition
I’ve always had a difficult time fitting in; never knowing where I belong in social circles. I have recently come to terms with the notion that I will always be a drifter… floating from crowd to crowd. Nevertheless, a pill I have yet to swallow is how hard it can be to date as a young Black woman.
Angela Bowden: The Shawn Hynes sentencing shows that in Nova Scotia’s justice system Black lives don’t matter
Angela Bowden on yesterday’s sentencing of Shawn Wade Hynes. the white man who shot a staple gun at young Nhlanhla Dlamini: “Hynes’ crimes were cushioned by his best interests (potential rehabilitation and trauma), while it paid lip service to the actual trauma he caused his victim. I wonder why Shawn Hynes’ character was granted the benefit of the doubt straight in the face of his clear anti-Blackness?”
News brief: Shawn Wade Hynes sentenced to 12 months house arrest for nail gun attack on Black co-worker
Shawn Wade Hynes, the white Pictou County resident who, after months af racist bullying, shot young Black co-worker Nhlanhla Dlamini with a high velocity nail gun at a worksite in Pictou County, was sentenced today to 12 months house arrest.
Gathering momentum for a just recovery – what will it take?
The Nova Scotia College of Social Workers is inviting the broader community to join in re-imagining how we can collaboratively develop a social justice praxis that will ensure that every person can join in the recovery that is hopefully around the corner. Nadia Siritsky writes about some of the topics the conference aims to cover, including the keynote from Dr. Delores Mullings, Associate Professor at Memorial University, questioning the popular framing of white fragility.
Raymond Sheppard: Cleaning up racist policing
Long time anti-racism activist Raymond Sheppard offers up some ideas on meaningful long-term police reform.
Mi’kmaq grassroots women say no to Goldboro LNG man camp
Margie Ann Cook, speaking for many Mi’kmaq women, strongly opposes the construction of a man camp housing up to 5,000 construction workers hired to build the Goldboro LNG processing facility, storage tanks and marine works in Guysborough County. This despite Pieridae’s claim of Mi’kmaq support for the project.
Wayne Desmond: Will Black lives ever matter?
Wayne Desmond: “To those who are tired of hearing Black Lives Matter, imagine how exhausted Black people are of saying it, living it and fighting against the hatred that they experience.”