Never has it been more important to defend free expression, freedom of speech, and freedom of conscience and opinion than right now — when opponents of terrorism are slagged as oppressors, and opponents of war (crimes) are attacked as bigots; when the supreme court of a supposedly constitutional democracy suppresses the voting rights of minorities and the right to bodily autonomy of half the…
George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke is a former Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate and is the E. J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto.
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George Elliott Clarke
Almost from the beginning of its destruction, commencing in 1964, the 150-year-old African–Nova Scotian (Africadian) community of Africville became the go-to site for must-read journalistic interviews, editorial commentary, and sociological study. It became the de rigueur way for Canadians to discuss the ongoing civil rights movement in the United States while deploring an “obvious” example of segregation in a “backward”…