Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise screening and movie talk Saturday, March 4, 7pm Spatz Theatre, 1855 Trollope Street $25 “This is a necessary festival for diversity on screen,” says Fabienne Colas, the founder and president of the inaugural Halifax Black Film Festival. “It gives a voice to people who wouldn’t have a voice otherwise.” […]
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Whose heritage is it anyway?
The last time PLANifax made a video on the Centre Plan, we discussed the new buildings that are coming up the city. This time, we’re talking about the old buildings—the Victorian, Georgian, pre-World War architecture that we’ve grown to love in Halifax as part of its heritage. Because when you just focus on the buildings, […]
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Journalism project reveals injustice in African Nova Scotian land titles
[Image-1] Journalism students at the Nova Scotia Community College have produced a damning and in-depth video investigation into Nova Scotia’s failure to offer land titles to longtime North Preston residents. Called “Untitled,” the video series blends historical research with present-day interviews to trace how the provincial government has ignored its own promise to help Black […]
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Celebrating our story (at last)
Shortly before 10pm on March 31, 2006, residents along the Old Birchtown Road near Shelburne reported seeing what looked like a white Pontiac Sunfire speeding away from the site of the one-storey wooden bungalow that housed the offices of Nova Scotia’s Black Loyalist Heritage Society. Within minutes of the car’s disappearance into the night, hot […]