Black Canadians looking to make themselves a factor in political debate

He couldn’t have known it when he accepted the invitation to speak at Saturday’s kickoff for the National Black Canadians Summit, but both halves of Ottawa rap artist Justin Holness’s heritage would be in the news.
His father’s roots are black (Jamaican), his mother’s are Indigenous (Assiniboine). A couple of hours before he took the stage at the National Arts Centre, the Elgin Street police station was the scene of a heartfelt protest over the death Greg Ritchie, a