George Elliott Clarke

• Ontario Celebrates Emancipation Day

Emancipation was not a gift, it was a right," says Professor George Elliott Clarke, who spoke at the reception. He said emancipation happened because of the great internation- al, intercultural, multiracial, multi-denominational struggle that went on through centuries, represented in part, by revolu- tion in places like Haiti; by guerilla campaign like the Maroons in places like Jamaica. He said these made it impossible for the European powers to continue to exploit a segment of humanity in order to increase their own wealth. Meanwhile, Jean Augustine, Fairness Commissioner of Ontario entitled her remarks. "We must remember, commemorate and celebrate, lest we forget, or let's mark where we've come from so we can see the progress we've made and judge how far we have to go. In Toronto, ...

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• October 15, 2009

• Canadian Professor Hopes Obama's Presidential Race Will Awaken Canadians

Professor [George Elliott Clarke] said it is time that a person of colour begin to contest federal party leadership and provincial party leadership as well. He said many people of colour think that only people who come from the so-called two founding peoples of Canada can run for leadership. Tt's time that we truly diversify the leadership of this nation as a whole. This is a nation where 17 per cent of this nation are sb-called visible minorities.

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• August 29, 2009

• Pan-African Vision - Poetry for the World!

In his introduction, celebrated poet George Elliott Clarke (Illuminated Verses, Kellom Books) proclaims the volume "the most remarkable Canadian poetry debut of the 21 st century. [Yannick Marshall], with the redoubtable assistance of Nigerian writer Olayemi Aganga, delivers the polar goods: the red of tuberculosis patients' blood, the ebony nights of ivory stars and copper skin, the shouts and moans of witness - the explosive music of nightclub, shebeen, church, and disco, plus poetry that is dynamic, breathtaking, soul-shaking, and unabashedly brilliant Yessum, these poets 'bring da noise'.

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• August 21, 2009

• Playwrights' Festival to Honour the Word

AfriCanadian Playwrights Festival Artistic director Djanet Sears is pleased to announce the list of playwrights involved in this year's festival; Lillian Allen, Carol Anderson, Trey Anthony, Dwight Arthur, Gerry Atwell, Mercedes Baines, Anthony Barrow, George Boyd, Dian Bridge, Austin Clarke, George Elliott Clarke, Lisa Codrington, Lucky Campbell, Pat Darbasie, Louise Delisle, Diona Dolabaille, Harry J. Elam, Jr., Lesley Ewen, Ashton Francis, Lorena Gale, Shauntay Grant, Sylvia Hamilton, Edwige Jean-Pierre, Asha Jeffers, Marcia Johnson, Don Kinch, Michelle La Flamme, Djennie Laguerre, Naila Keleta Mae, Michael Miller, Andrew Moodie, Alicia Payne, Joseph Pierre, Kimahli Powell, Djanet Sears, ahdri zhina mandiela, Alison Seary-Smith, Satori Shakoor, Ras Leon Saul, Kwame Stephens, Colin Ta...

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• August 11, 2009

• Revised proposed final judgment; individuals and entities submitting public comments; list,

... 0001 MTC-00019734 A., George............. 0002 MTC-00020158 A.J. Kirby Co........ 0002 MTC-00004988 Byng-Clarke, Adrian......... 0003 MTC-00004089 Byrd, Betsy...... 0001 MTC-00000696 Eggleston, Elliott......... 0001 MTC-00019470 Egide, Rita..............

• FR, March 18, 2002

• Authors Talk About the Flowering of Literature

[George Elliott Clarke] is an award-winning poet, author, playwright and literary critic. In 2003, he was appointed the E. J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. As a writer he has published in a variety of genres, and his Execution Poems in 2001 won the Governor General's Award for Poetry. [Afua Cooper] is one of Canada's most versatile poets. She has published four books of poems, including Memories Have Tongue, one of the finalists in the 1992 Casa de las Americas literary award. Her poems have been included in numerous anthologies worldwide, and have also been recorded on cassettes and CD's. Nurse is a literary journalist and a critic for CBC Radio. She is the author of two books, Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing and What's A Black Cri...

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• August 14, 2009

• Williamson v. Berry, 49 U.S. 495, 8 How. 495 (1850)

...Williamson was the daughter of Thomas B. Clarke, being one of three children who survived him, the...Clarke to George De Grasse, of which the following is a copy:-- 'Th...Afterwards, in 1828, in Elliott v. Piersol, a case of ejectment, 1 Pet., 328, 340....

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Black Canadians Root for Obama

Rinaldo Walcott, associate professor of black diaspora cultural studies at the University of Toronto, says it is very unlikely that Canadian politics will see someone like [Barack Obama]. He says Senator Obama's victory will mean that the real problem will be poor black people. "Middle class black people are going to have a better time," he says. In issues where race and poverty come together, Walcott says poor black people will be second guessed when they talk about their lived experience. "People are going to say, 'what are you talking about?'." He also said Obama's victory will bring a certain kind of confidence and acknowledgement that African Canadians contribute to Canada. There are others that will think that this does not mean that things have changed." [Carl James] says there a...

..., son of former prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In the GTA, Green Party candidate Nigel B... economic crisis that he will inherit from George W. Bush and the high expectation that he should be...The panelists are Dr George Elliott Clarke, University of Toronto professor; Will Strickland,...

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• August 28, 2009

• Author Eyes Disparity

As much as they may respect their parental homeland, they also have a different set of references because they can't easily talk about the prime minister of Jamaica or Barbados or Trinidad. They got to talk about the prime minister of Canada. They can't easily talk about the culture of the parental homeland as they also have to deal with growing up in Etobicoke, in Scarborough, in North York, etc. and in Toronto itself. So there is a different set of references.

... AWARD-WINNING author and scholar Professor George Elliott Clarke contends it's not easy to close the...

• Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
• August 14, 2009

• North of the Border: Black Canadians Share Diverse Stories

Nurse argues that the anthology is an attempt to meet the need for a dialogue about what it means to be Black and Canadian in a country that suffers from its own agonizing national self-esteem issue, as it sits in the vast shadow cast by the United States. Revival constitutes a conversation about the relevance of black Canadian writing like no other," Nurse writes, "and celebrates the coming of age of a black Canadian literature.

...Consider George Elliott Clarke, a scholar and one of Canada's best...

• Crisis, The
• Vol. 113 Nbr. 3, May 2006