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ANSJI Letter to Mayor Locke May 24, 2022

By way of introduction, I am Senior Legal Counsel at the African Nova Scotian Justice Institute [ANSJI]. The ANSJI was created by the ANSDPAD....

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ANSDPAD - Letter RE NSPPS

The African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition (ANSDPAD Coalition) is a group made up of thirty- five African Nova Scotian

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Wishing you a Happy Kwanzaa and a wonderful 2022

Wishing you a Happy Kwanzaa and a wonderful 2022

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ANSDPAD Emancipation Day statement 2021

Today we acknowledge and commemorate Emancipation Day!

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Emancipation Day

Emancipation Day, celebrated on August 1st, is the day The Slavery Abolition Act became law in the British Empire (including Canada) in 1834. The...

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ANSDPAD Press Release

The African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition (ANSDPAD) is pleased to have been awarded $4.8 million in funding from the N

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215 Lost Souls

The ANSDPAD mourns and honours the 215 Indigenous Children found in an unmarked grave...

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Black Lives Matter Solidarity Fund Nova Scotia

Black Lives Matter Solidarity Fund to help ANS groups fund new projects in Nova Scotia

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Black is Beautiful Beer

The African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition has teamed up Big Spruce Brewing of Cape Breton, N.S. for the release of ...

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Voices of the Decade - RELEASED

In 2020, the international community marks the midterm of the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2020 (IDPAD)...

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Join the Justice Strategy Working Group

Join the Justice Strategy Working Group from 6pm- 8pm on December 14, 2020 and be apart of the important virtual discussion on how the criminal ju..

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ANSDPAD to Premier McNeil

Over 30 years ago the Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall Jr. Prosecution officially recognized systemic racism in the justice system and its...

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New DPAD signage at the office

The ANSDPAD new office signage is here! Stop by the office to see the sign today.

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Petition to the House of Commons

Canada actively participated in the transatlantic slave trade and enslavement of African People;

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Letter to the Premier

The recent traumatic deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and George Floyd have affected the African Nova Scotian (ANS) community as ...

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Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission

Members of the African Nova Scotian Decade for Persons of African Descent (ANSDPAD) Coalition are pictured receiving a 2019 Nova Scotia Human...

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ANSDPAD Coalition leaves meeting on street checks

Members of the African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition (ANSDPAD) left a meeting Thursday evening, April 11, organized...

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ANSDPAD Coalition responds to Count us in

We are almost halfway through the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024), which focuses on three pillars...

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