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Five more New Brunswickers have died from COVID-19, Public Health reported Wednesday. That pushes the total number of COVID-related deaths to 24 in the past eight days and 99 since the pandemic began.

Links This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate Nearly 80 years ago, Richard Wright became one of the most famous Black writers in the United States with the publication of “Native Son.” The novel’s searing critique of systemic racism made it a best-seller and inspired a generation of Black writers. In 1941, Wright wrote a new novel titled “The Man Who Lived Underground,” but publishers refused to release it, in part because the book was filled with graphic descriptions of police brutality by white officers against a Black man. His manuscript was largely forgot...

Posted: May 22, 2021 4:48 PM ET | Last Updated: May 22 A classroom at Bloomfield Elementary School in Prince Edward Island shows various public health measures, including physically distanced desks, hand sanitizer and a face mask.(John Robertson/CBC) "Stressful and horrible." "Exhausting." "Overall, just frustrating." Those are descriptions of the experience of some teens and teachers in Canadian schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, a period in which the Canadian education system has endured an unprecedented shock, with significant knock-on effects for learning. For students and experts who...

Now, for the first time, the full text of Wright's incendiary novel about race and violence in America, is published in the form that he intended, complete with his companion essay, “Memories Of My Grandmother.” Photo: AP More than 60 years after his death, Richard Wright is again a bestselling author and very much in line with the present. The Man Who Lived Underground, a short novel written in the 1940s and never published in full until this spring, is the surreal but credible story of a Black man who is tortured by police into confessing to a double murder he didn't commit. He escapes ...

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