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  • Family Secrets

    Crossing the Colour Line

    Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life. Her great-grandfather was Dr. Anderson Abbott, the first Canadian-born Black to graduate from medical school in Toronto in 1861. In Family Secrets Catherine Slaney narrates her journey along the trail of her family tree, back through the era of slavery and the plight of ... Read more

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  • I Am Not Your Negro

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    How One Man became Dublin's Tough Justice Legend

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  • Strong in the Rain

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