Nelson Carvery, the president of the Justice for Africville Society, is taking legal action against the city, seeking compensation for loss of land in the former black community. Carvery is joined in the suit by 38 former residents and descendants of Africville. In 2010, a settlement was made between HRM and the Africville Genealogy Society. The deal included […]
Africville
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Africville Settlement: Is this Democracy or a Miscarriage of Justice?
[Editor’s note: This opinion piece was submitted by Denise Allen, who has filed for a court injunction to stop the proposed Africville settlement. For more on the injunction, see here.] Let us be clear, was the “Africville deal” which was orchestrated by government, and merrily agreed to by the Africville Genealogy Society, decided in the […]
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Injunction filed** to stop Africville settlement
[**Correction, March 24, 2010: contrary to what was reported in this article, the Africville descendants have not filed an injunction, but rather have discussed doing so.] Not everyone was satisfied with mayor Peter Kelly’s apology to residents for the loss of Africville. “He said we lost everything,” says Denise Allen, organizer of an injunction to […]
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The city’s apology misses the mark
The city’s apology misses the mark, an opportunity I am a masters student in the department of religion and theology at Saint Mary’s University. I have spent the last few years dedicated to studying the black community in Halifax, and have recently been following HRM’s offerings to the former residents of Africville. The public apology […]
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Video: iZrEAL on Africville
Another example of how complex the issue is: spoken word artist iZrEAL sorts out his own feelings on yesterday’s apology and announcement that almost $5 million of gov’t money is going towards a new interpretive centre in Seaview Park. Is this really for the community, he asks, or for tourists? Related Stories
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Photos: An Apology for Africville
This morning, as I walked over to the Gottingen Street YMCA with the Halifax North Memorial Library women’s group and MP Megan Leslie, I was thinking about Halifax artist Cathy Busby’s project Sorry. Her exhibition of public apology photographs and text—from Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction to Stephen Harper’s apology to First Nations Canadians—has shown around the world. We live in a media-saturated society where there is a formula for public atonement: Tiger Woods needs practice, I’m afraid. Peter Kelly didn’t even deliver the only apology today—Yoshimi Inaba, CEO of Toyota, announced that he is “deeply sorry” for his company’s malfunctioning