Tag / racialized communities
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![#JUSTICEforCOLTEN written in chalk on sidewalk.]()
Colten — Our relative, our warrior
“And when they ask, ‘Is that your relative?’ I will say, ‘Yes.’” (Sarah Rain) I remember the day Colten died. It was a hot summer day in Regina, Saskatchewan and I had…
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![Carrie Mae Best's newspaper, the Clarion, covered Viola Desmond's arrest on the front page of its first edition in 1946. Image courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives.]()
Meet the two African Nova Scotian reporters who helped bring Viola Desmond’s story to light
This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign By Sandrinette M. Maniania In 2018, Viola Desmond will be the first woman in Canada to grace the $10 bill. Many now know…
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![Farzam Dadashzadeh, an Iranian refugee now living in Vancouver, says he was outed in a 2007 CBC documentary called Out in Iran: Inside Iran’s Secret Gay World. Screenshot by J-Source.]()
Newsrooms need to talk about informed consent when reporting on LGBTQ+ communities
This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Steph Wechsler In August, the CBC was named as a defendant in a lawsuit claiming that Farzam Dadashzadeh, an Iranian refugee now living…
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