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2010

Welcome to our Archives page. On this page you will find totaly 21 of our articles broken down into Months and Years.
Aroni Awards; inspiring and building our community
Community
Adele Ambrose

Aroni Awards; inspiring and building our community

Five years ago, I attended an award show that embodied a unique sense of family, community, and inspiration. It was the Aroni Awards, a show created to honour the memory of Aron Haile. An accomplished... read more..
Exclusive interview with the Grammy and Juno award-winning chanter/songwriter Dan Hill
Music
AfroToronto Team

Exclusive interview with the Grammy and Juno award-winning chanter/songwriter Dan Hill

Although Mr. Dan Hill doesn’t need any introduction, if you have been living on another planet, allow us to present a résumé of his professional accomplishments. Mr. Daniel Grafton Hill IV was born read more..
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Untold History; African images and Western Art
Community
Adele Ambrose

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Untold History; African images and Western Art

A renowned scholar and literary critic, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. exudes an infectious enthusiasm for genealogical research, the arts, and life.  As Director of the W.E.B Dubois Institute for A read more..
Love, Loss and some Trey
Arts and Entertainment
Adele Ambrose

Love, Loss and some Trey

For the past ten years, we've watched Trey Anthony grow as an actor, writer, and producer. Through “Da Kink in My Hair,” she introduced audiences to the joys and pains experienced by women of colour read more..
A portrait of the surgeon Dr. Patricia L. Turner
Community
AfroToronto Team

A portrait of the surgeon Dr. Patricia L. Turner

Dr. Turner, MD nee Patricia Lynne Turner, was born in Maryland. Since her childhood, Dr. Turner knew that medicine was her thing. She had the confidence, determination, and maturity to decide a read more..
Freakonomics: Controversial economics best seller adapted to screen
Movie Reviews
AfroToronto Team

Freakonomics: Controversial economics best seller adapted to screen

Freakonomics was a best-selling primer on Economics written by University of Chicago professor Steven Levitt in collaboration with journalist Stephen Dubner. Together, the talented twosome endeavoured... read more..
Kickin’ back with K’Naan
Music
AfroToronto Team

Kickin’ back with K’Naan

Somalia. The name alone conjures up images of unbridled destruction, merciless warlords, and ruthless terror. It is a place where nobody is safe from the atrocities of war and where 8-year-olds handle... read more..
Book review: The History of White People
Books
AfroToronto Team

Book review: The History of White People

Nell Painter (Photo credit: Robin Holland) "Most Americans envision whiteness as racially indivisible, though ethnically divided; this is the scheme anthropologists laid out in the mid-20th Century. ... read more..
Corinne Bailey Rae: The “Live from the Artists Den” interview
Music
AfroToronto Team

Corinne Bailey Rae: The “Live from the Artists Den” interview

Corinne puts her record on and lets her hair down Corinne Jacqueline Bailey was born in Leeds, England, on February 26, 1979, the eldest of three girls to bless the union of her British mother and read more..
Toronto photography marathon
Visual Arts
AfroToronto Team

Toronto photography marathon

From the island city of Florianopolis, the maratona fotografia was born; the concept was simple: loaded with fresh film into their cameras and turn up their radios, waiting for secret themes. They the... read more..
Fraternizing with the first brother-in-law
Community
AfroToronto Team

Fraternizing with the first brother-in-law

Craig Robinson was born in Chicago on April 21, 1962, to Fraser and Marian Robinson and raised in a modest home where he had to share a room with his younger sister, Michelle. With the help of devot read more..
Book review: Bitch Is the New Black
Books
AfroToronto Team

Book review: Bitch Is the New Black

“I’m such a badass. I am literally the baddest bitch on the planet. If there was a bitch contest between me and every other heartbroken, hissing, red-eyed, puffy-faced woman in the world, I would de read more..
Jada Pinkett Smith Interview
Arts and Entertainment
AfroToronto Team

Jada Pinkett Smith Interview

The many shades of Jada, from TV Nurse to Karate Kid’s mom Besides playing the title character on the U.S. TNT series HawthoRNe, which is starting its second season, Jada Pinkett Smith executive-pr read more..
African programming at Luminato 2010
Arts and Entertainment
Meres J. Weche

African programming at Luminato 2010

After much fanfare and anticipation, the Luminato Arts Festival kicks off later this week. It will run from June 11th to 20th at various locations in Toronto’s downtown core. During the last three yea... read more..
A portrait of the first Afro-Canadian Oscar and Emmy nominee filmmaker: Hubert Davis
Movie Reviews
AfroToronto Team

A portrait of the first Afro-Canadian Oscar and Emmy nominee filmmaker: Hubert Davis

Photo by Joseph Michael Hubert Davis grew up in Vancouver, BC, and was raised by his mother. Davis is a writer and director who earned his BA in Film & Communication at McGill University in 1999.... read more..
The ReelWorld Film Festival: Ten years of our stories, our talent, our films
Movies
Meres J. Weche

The ReelWorld Film Festival: Ten years of our stories, our talent, our films

The ReelWorld Film Festival, running from April 7-11, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Founded in 2001 by actress Tonya Lee Williams, its mission was and remains to celebrate culturally dive... read more..
What can a chiropractor do for you?
Health and Fitness
AfroToronto Team

What can a chiropractor do for you?

Did you know that more than 4 million Canadians visit a chiropractor each year? Chiropractic health care has become one of the most utilized types of alternative medicine in Canada, yet there is sti read more..
Theatre Review -- Who knew grannie: a dub aria
Theatre
Meres J. Weche

Theatre Review -- Who knew grannie: a dub aria

Obsidian Theatre Company fittingly closes its landmark 10th anniversary season with the uplifting play written and directed by ahdri zhina mandiela, who knew grannie: a dub aria. Currently playing at ... read more..
Who Knew Grannie preview
Theatre
AfroToronto Team

Who Knew Grannie preview

ahdri zhina mandiela’s new play, who knew grannie, is and isn’t a play in the same way that mandiela is and isn’t a playwright.  In her career, she has applied her inherently rhythmic voice to sp... read more..
Healing at the speed of light?
Lifestyle
AfroToronto Team

Healing at the speed of light?

Laser Therapy is on its way to becoming the future of medicine. Currently, laser therapy is being used for vision corrections and anti-aging procedures. In the rehabilitation field, low-level lasers read more..
The truth about whiplash
Health and Fitness
AfroToronto Team

The truth about whiplash

During the winter, the number of car accidents in the GTA inevitably rises. According to Toronto Police Services, there were over 10,000 reported motor vehicle accident injuries within the GTA in 20 read more..
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