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Jacob Robinson didn’t have a single Black teacher in elementary school in Toronto and later in Brampton, and could count the number at his high school, St. Roch Catholic Secondary School, on one hand. But the third-year University of Waterloo student says he clearly remembers the junior high science teacher whose mistreatment of him and other Black students he now knows was racism. She would give and check homework every day. And one day, Robinson had finished his except for one question he did not understand and approached her before class to ask about it. She didn t want to talk then and later asked him why it was not complete. ....
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HALIFAX Nova Scotia s government is adding $50,000 to a scholarship endowment that honours the African Nova Scotian singer Portia White. The funding will help Bravura Nova Scotia award - an annual scholarship of $2,000 to a promising student of the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts. White was a contralto who achieved fame as a classical concert and gospel singer in the 1940s and 1950s. She became the first Black Canadian concert singer to win approval across North America, despite racial barriers to her career. Related Stories ....