Gold Cup Recaps: USMNT and Matt Turner topple Tajon Buchanan’s Canada 1-0
United States clinches top spot in Group B with shutout win over Canada
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Tajon Buchanan and Matt Turner returned to CONCACAF Gold Cup action as their respective nations met in their final match of group stage action.
Canada came into Sunday’s matchup atop Group B with consecutive 4-1 wins over Martinique and Haiti. The United States came into the match second in Group B after a 1-0 win over Haiti and a 6-1 win over Martinique. Both Canada and the US were tied on goal differential with a +6-goal differential.
#BTCoumn – Affirmation of the darker brother (Part 1)
Article by May 7, 2021
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David Comissiong
The black American poet – Langston Hughes – might very well have been describing the relationship between our Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and its fellow predominantlyEnglish-speaking Western Hemisphere nations of Canada and the United States of America (USA), when he penned the following lines :-
“I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes…”
You see, there were three poles of British colonization in the Western Hemisphere: namely, the English-speaking colonies of “lower” North America that formed themselves into the United States of America; the English-speaking colonies of “upper” North America that were consolidated into the Confederation of Canada; and t
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