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Showrunner Selwyn Seyfu Hinds responded to concerns about the production won't benefit the Black Nova Scotian community the story is about.

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Posted: Feb 19, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: February 19 The organizers behind Buy Black Birchtown are working to create a retreat and learning centre that will be open for bookings this summer.(Jessika Hepburn) In Shelburne County, a few minutes from the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, sits three hectares of waterfront woodland set to become a retreat for Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC). The area was once home to Nova Scotia's largest settlement of Black Loyalists, who fled north in the late 1700s with the promise of refuge, and instead faced racism and poor living con...

White-owned retreat centres often leave BIPOC folks needing "a retreat from the retreat.” click to enlarge Members of Change Is Brewing Collective, Vanessa Hartley of SEED (South End Environmental Injustice Society) and Buy Black Birchtown co-founder Lauryn Guest on the Birchtown property Jessika Hepburn “Why are all retreat spaces owned by rich white folks?” and “Why can’t we own ...

click to enlarge Shekara Grant and Damian McCartney from Change is Brewing Co. show off their latest brew at 2 Crows. Victoria Walton Halifax’s bustling beer industry is stereotypically full of skinny white dudes with a beanie, Blundstones and a beard. And while that image may be based in some truth, there are groups working to change the fact that young white men are the presumptive craft brewer...