As African Heritage Month wound down earlier this year, Mainstreet Halifax loaned out a recorder to freelancer Damini Awoyiga, a teenage poet at Charles P. Allen High School in Bedford, N.S. She asked her Black schoolmates about their hopes for the future, and what allies can do to offer support.
The African Nova Scotian Justice Institute will receive more than $607,000 in federal funding to hire a team dedicated to providing Black Nova Scotians with free legal advice.