by David H. Jackson Jr. | Mar 31, 2021 | African American History, People
Composer, conductor, and flutist Alton Augustus Adams, Sr., was born in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, the Danish West Indies, on November 4, 1889, to Jacob Henry Adams, a carpenter, and Petrina Evangeline Dinzey, a seamstress. They were handcrafters and encouraged...
by RobertStirling | Mar 30, 2021 | Global African History, People
Yolanda Guzmán was a young Afro Latina activist in the Dominican Republic who was killed in 1965 at the time of an uprising by supporters of the country’s democratically-installed president Juan Bosch, who had been overthrown by military-backed forces. Guzmán, who had...
by FredericksBrendaEllis | Mar 29, 2021 | Global African History, People
Jamal Derek Jr. Francique, a 28-year-old father of two who was active in the Mississauga music scene, was gunned down by a Peel Regional Police officer on January 7, 2020. He died in hospital three days later. Details of the circumstances surrounding Francique’s death...
by FredericksBrendaEllis | Mar 29, 2021 | Global African History, People
On May 5, 2020, 26-year-old Caleb Tubila Njoko fell from the 15th floor balcony of his mother’s London, Ontario, apartment building during a police intervention. He died in hospital three days later. Born in Toronto to Francophone Congolese immigrants, Nelly Wendo and...
by FredericksBrendaEllis | Mar 29, 2021 | Global African History, People
Hundreds gathered in Toronto for the first annual Regis Korchinski-Paquet Memorial Walk for Justice, organized by Black Lives Matter on July 25, 2020, to honor the life of a young African-Canadian woman who fell 24 floors to her death during an encounter with police....
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