LONG RAZED, SETTLEMENT NOT FORGOTTEN

The Boston Globe;  January 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ...HALIFAX, Novia Scotia Once, music echoed through Africville, Canada's oldest black community. Men on guitars...to feel the spirit move, people said, go to Africville on Easter morning. But Africville is silent now. Between 1967 and 1970, it was...

Making the 'Damn' Nation the Race's 'Salvation': The Politics of George...

Kola;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......of the historical black village of Africville, a rural, harbour-side enclave of the...decades since the completion of the Africville Relocation, as the bulldozing cum social...progress,' that the so-called ghetto--Africville--be eliminated. Indeed, part of the...

CANADA: WHAT THE G-7 DIDN'T SEE IN HALIFAX

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  June 21, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Park was, for more than a century, Africville. Some five kilometers on the outskirts of urban Halifax, Africville was a black community. Some would...assigned to oversee the relocation of Africville's residents as her first task as the...

Ghosts of Africville: former residents of Africville are still fighting...

Alternatives Journal;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......North End is where many residents of Africville were forcibly relocated after their...a tragic mistake, the destruction of Africville was the legacy of colonial racism that...barriers, settlers nonetheless made Africville--as the area came to be known--their...

Race issues are complicated, urgent

Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  April 24, 2007 ;     273 words ......directly themselves. Why doesn't the white community talk among themselves and with their...young black females. The thing the white community doesn't understand is that blacks...the arrogance in some parts of the white community in which they think they are better...

Afrikans, the "Race Problem" and the need for power

Michigan Citizen;  February 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ......there is speculation about how the white community will respond to its new status as...populations in communities of color, the white community plans to maintain its power and bolster...relatively recent vintage within the white community about Asians as the "model minority...

A Vanished Community

Literary Review of Canada;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......life and racial politics in Halifax's Africville. Reparations Stephen Kimber HarperCollins...across the province. Among them was Africville, a community of about 80 families perched...slow. The threatened expropriation of Africville by the City of Halifax was arguably...

COLUMN: A constructive diversity discussion

University Wire;  November 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ......either a) there was apathy among the white community because they felt that OPAL, IDE and...particularly those in the majority white community, feel detached from the dialogue and...to attract members of the majority white community as well who also value a diverse student...

Dartmouth College series studies white populace's identity

University Wire;  January 25, 2002 ;     614 words ......community hour entitled Dartmouth's White Community: Assessing Identity and Privileges...Discussions also focused on the weak white community resulting from an undefined identity...ambiguous nature of the Dartmouth white community. Despite the community hour's high...

Vote Trips Up Plan for Aurora, Minn., Nursing Home.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  December 4, 2002 ;     695 words ......to build a 50-bed nursing home at White Community Hospital in Aurora was dealt a potentially...without benefit to either the county or White Community Hospital. However, the county may...approve the use of those 50 beds for White Community Hospital's proposal. The County Board...

Area leaders discuss healing in wake of teen's death

Maryland Gazette;  October 30, 2004 ;     586 words ......cooperation between themselves and white community leaders to help heal racial tensions...at the growing show of support from white community leaders. A town hall forum last month...African-American community and the white community had an opportunity to get together...

KEY STATISTICS.(NEWS)(Letter to the Editor)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  July 29, 2002 ;     147 words ......mention those areas in which the black community leads the white community, at least as far as Cincinnati is concerned. According to...regardless of how much it might desire to do so, that the white community can do to change the material issues. I believe that if...

Africville. (a small black community in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which was...

Canada and the World Backgrounder;  April 1, 1996 ;     169 words ......furniture and belongings, as the people of Africville moved out. Then, the city moved in and...church of the people who lived there. Africville, a mostly black community of 400 people...The idea was to move the people of Africville into better housing but in the process...

Sweet home, Zimbabwe

Chicago Sun-Times;  August 26, 2004 ;     247 words ......aside an official hate campaign against the nation's tiny white community Wednesday and hailed its triple-medal-winning Olympic swimmer...with everyone here." Zimbabwe's diminishing 30,000-strong white community has been the target of political attacks by President Robert...

Zimbabwe's Mugabe blasts whites.

United Press International;  December 15, 2000 ;     334 words ......Union-Patriotic Front party by lashing out at the country's white community. Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of...that despite 20 years of independence, the 80,000-strong white community still controlled the economy and practiced discrimination...