A woman who has filed a human-rights complaint against Halifax Regional Police says she has experienced "serious health difficulties" because of racially motivated discrimination.

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The contents of the archives and rare book room support the university's research and Owens is trying to build a collection of slavery, abolition and underground railroad materials as part of the social justice focus. He has amassed about 100 personal accounts from the 19th century, including Henry Bibb's 1850 autobiography Voice of the Fugitive. Bibb, an escaped slave, was the founder of the first African-Canadian newspaper in Sandwich.

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A raft of misconceptions are floating around about how an African-centred school would work. To my mind, one of the most import is the idea that the project is an attempt to directly address black children's high failure rate. If, as some suggest, the purpose of the school is to rescue failing black students, we can pretty much look forward to plunging attendance and morale, signalling the ultimate failure of the experiment. Rather, the institution should be designed to serve black students of all abilities and levels, because children naturally get inspired as much by each other as by their teachers.

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Fundamentally, the debate is about what it has always been about: power and privilege, who may join the managerial and middle classes and from what backgrounds they may issue.

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Health care project aimed at African Canadian community will take place from now until spring

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Frustrated supporters of black-focused schools shut down a school board meeting last night after learning the issue was not going to be discussed.

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***The Hope and Despair Surrounding HIV/AIDS Research. Despite optimism brought by the new HIV elite controller study, universal and equal access to the drugs derived from the research seems unlikely if history is to serve as a guide.***

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The Man Who Didn’t Shoot Malcolm X. He spent twenty-two years in prison for an infamous murder he didn’t commit. But Khalil Islam, confined, traveled inward.

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The article that begat the movie American Gangster. Read Mark Jacobson's profile of Frank Lucas. The movie was based on this article. *good read*

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The Leek-Taylor collection, recently acquired by Kings Landing, was studied by Bradley Cross's fourth-year material history seminar class. The collection is a rare piece of New Brunswick's heritage because it contains 180 artifacts from two black families that were connected by marriage. Supreme Court Judge Col. Isaac Allen freed slave George Leek in the early 19th century. Leek then married a First Nations woman and began a family near Kingsclear.