Nearly a century ago, Andrea Este's great-uncle founded a community centre that was a sanctuary for Montreal's Black community for decades. She writes about why it's important to remember his story today, and how she's honouring his legacy by working to revive the community centre.
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Like that relative who picks through the chicken parts at a family picnic to find the leg or the breast or the thigh with just the right amount of crisp, playwright James Ijames has no reluctance to rummage through the bones of Shakespeare's Hamlet to cook up the irresistible Fat Ham.