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Imagine a night when eight of Canada’s star authors, all Black and female, gather to swap tales and sing a few tunes as they recall the epic impact of Morrison’s
George Floyd s murder, one year later: Two generations of Black men on the fight against racism
Royson James and his two sons debate whether lasting progress has really been made in the fight against anti-Black racism By Royson James
May 20, 2021 Royson James (centre) and his sons,
Sheldon James (left) and Darnell James (Photograph by Dimitri Aspinall)
I watched the George Floyd video standing in my kitchen, trembling. It took me back to the slavery museum in Selma, Alabama, where, the morning after Barack Obama was voted the first Black president of the United States, I was left totally broken, watching the exhibit on lynching the embodiment of the sheer agony of America even in the ecstasy of O B A M A.