Tag Archives: Black community

Radio — REBROADCAST: Fighting environmental racism in small-town Nova Scotia

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Scott

This is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio originally broadcast in July 2021. Vanessa Hartley is 21 years old and an eighth generation Black Loyalist descendent. She is the chair of the South End Environmental Injustice Society … Continue reading →

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Radio – The struggle for Black lives in northern Ontario

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Scott

Ra’anaa Brown and Shana Calixte are residents of Sudbury, Ontario. Brown is the co-president of Black Lives Matter – Sudbury, and Calixte is the group’s Director of Community Relations. Scott Neigh interviews them about what the struggle for Black lives … Continue reading →

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Radio — Centring BIPOC youth in questions of sexual health and rights

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Scott

Sarah Edo works with a publication called Nuance. pihêsiw is part of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN). In the context of this year’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Week (SRH Week), Scott Neigh interviews them about what it means … Continue reading →

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Radio — A grassroots freedom school for African Nova Scotian youth

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Scott

Rachel Zellars is an African-American academic, lawyer, and community organizer who has lived in Canada for more than a decade and a half, and in Halifax for the last couple of years. Wendie Wilson is an African Nova Scotian teacher, … Continue reading →

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Radio — The struggles and strategies of Black students in Canadian universities

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Scott

Ladna Mohamed, Kaku Kenyi, and Andre Harriott are all current students or recent graduates of post-secondary educational institutions in Toronto. Scott Neigh speaks with them about Black in Post-Sec, a new documentary film about the experiences of Black students in … Continue reading →

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Radio — Black youth opposing gentrification and empowering community

Posted on February 15, 2017 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/310150229-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-203-feb-152017-black-youth-opposing-gentrification-and-empowering-community.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Kyturea Jones, Payton Ashe, and Donntayia Jones. They are members of the North End Community Action Committee, a Black youth-led community group in Halifax’s North End that … Continue reading →

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Talking Radical Radio: Echoes of Africville

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Scott

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Rev. Rhonda Britton of Cornwallis Street Baptist Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, talks about the struggle to preserve the closed St. Patrick’s-Alexandra school building as a community space in the face of … Continue reading →

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