(October 23, 2020) Founded in 1921 by David Ross McCord, the McCord Museum of Canadian History is located in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Quebec. The museum’s vast collection contains photographs, manuscripts, as well as examples of textile and artisanal work that brings a detailed texture to Canadian history. This essay will highlight some of the many fine pieces of Indigenous … [Read more...] about McCord Museum: Fashion creators in textile
The Charity Report
Hate speech aimed at public figures: Who’s targeted?
(October 23, 2020) While public figures have always been game for rebuke and revile, the hate speech directed towards them has grown exponentially over the past five years. And not all of the invective is online or in words only. Thirteen members of so-called militias with a white-nationalist bent were arrested in a planned kidnap and possible assassination attempt on Michigan … [Read more...] about Hate speech aimed at public figures: Who’s targeted?
Amherstburg Freedom Museum: Commemorating the Underground Railroad in Canada
(September 16, 2020) The Amherstburg Freedom Museum is Canada’s first Black National Historic Site. Amherstburg, Ontario, was a chief entry point for Underground Railroad refugees into Canada. Members of the Nazrey African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Amherstburg added a museum to the church site in 1966 as a testament to its significance. With the construction of a new, … [Read more...] about Amherstburg Freedom Museum: Commemorating the Underground Railroad in Canada
Building Unity by Michael Prosserman: Hip-hop culture as a metaphor for leadership
by Sharon Broughton (September 15, 2020) Building Unity: Leading a Non-Profit from Spark to Succession, Michael Prosserman, ECW Press, September 15 2020, 288 pp., $28.54 As author Michael Prosserman reveals his story of creating the hip-hop-inspired UNITY charity, impacting more than a quarter-million young people across Canada, leading a non-profit from spark to … [Read more...] about Building Unity by Michael Prosserman: Hip-hop culture as a metaphor for leadership
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A battle for miners’ lives
By Sharon Broughton (September 12, 2020) Soul Full of Coal Dust – A Fight for breath and justice in Appalachia, Chris Hamby, Little, Brown and Company, August 18, 2020, 448 pp., $32.32 Soul Full of Coal Dust is a riveting account that is part memoir, part medical and legal thriller, part underdog takes on the Goliath of systemic injustice. With … [Read more...] about Soul Full of Coal Dust: A battle for miners’ lives