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Black bookstore owner say last year’s surging sales was part of anti-racism movement November 30, 2021
During last summer’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests, throngs of people weren’t just filling the streets, they were also filling the bookstores. Everywhere, sales in books about white privilege and anti-racism skyrocketed so high so fast that some were on backorder for months. Black-owned bookstores, in particular, benefitted from this sudden surge. Now, over a year […]
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Quebec City police treatment of young Black man ‘totally unacceptable,’ says lawyer | CBC News November 30, 2021
One of the young Black people detained by Quebec City police during an intervention early Saturday morning is considering suing the city for the way he was treated, his lawyer told Radio-Canada on Monday. Pacifique Niyokwizera, 18, was waiting outside the Dagobert nightclub with his friends when the incident took place. A video shows police officers punching […]
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