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Luther Brown

April 18, 2011 Artistic Director

TweetChoreographer / Artistic Director / Founder / Owner, Do Dat Entertainment & Judge, So You Think You Can Dance Canada, Los Angeles, CA. Born: Kingston, Jamaica. Once every couple of years, there emerges one or two individuals who come about that creatively raise the level of the playing field in their respective industry. Their peers are amazed [...]

March 28, 2011 Author

TweetDistinguished Scholar / Author / Poet, Bard High School Early College, Brooklyn, NY. Born: Ajax, ON. Dr. Zetta Elliott was born in Ajax, Ontario and spent the early years of her life in Pickering and Scarborough. She attended Bishop’s University in Quebec, then spent a summer in Brooklyn, and knew NYC would one day be [...]

December 9, 2010 Costume Design

TweetCostume Designer / Fashion Designer / Stylist, I Style Inc., Brampton, ON / California. Born: Montego Bay, Jamaica. Antoinette Messam was born in Jamaica to a family immersed in the creation of clothing. Her mother was a dressmaker who specialized in bridal, her grandfather was an established tailor. She was destined to be involved in the design [...]

November 18, 2010 Automotive

TweetPresident and CEO, Dodge Car Brand / Senior Vice President, Product Design, Chrysler Group LLC, Detroit, U.S.A. Born: New York, U.S.A. Ralph Gilles is the President and CEO of the Dodge Car Brand and Senior Vice President of Design at Chrysler. He is instrumental in revitalizing the Chrysler brand, leading his team in the design of the [...]

November 16, 2010 Actor

TweetActor / Singer / Songwriter / Olympian / Professional Athlete / Cardiac Treatment Specialist / Coach / Educator, Victoria, B.C. & Orange County, CA. Born: North York, ON. Former Olympian Howard Dell approaches every avenue of his life with the same drive, passion and persistence that propelled him, at breakneck speed, down the icy rollercoaster-like slopes [...]

November 9, 2010 Athletics

TweetSoccer Player, Texas, U.S.A. Born: Guyana. Charmaine Hooper is a professional soccer player who has had a wealth of international experience and success. Born in Guyana, she began playing soccer as a child in Zambia, where her father was posted with the Guyana High Commission. In addition to playing for Canada, she has also played in the U.S., [...]

October 20, 2010 Arts

Tweet(Originally posted Oct. 20, 2010. Re-posted today as part of our special Black History Month tribute highlighting 28 of Canada’s top influencers & trailblazers.) Technical Director, San Francsico Ballet, San Francisco, CA. Born: Toronto, ON. Christopher Dennis served as the Resident Lighting Designer and Lighting Coordinator at The National Ballet of Canada for 14 seasons. [...]

October 7, 2010 Author

TweetWeather Anchor / Reporter & Professional Speaker / Author, WTTG-Fox5 DC & Gwen Tolbart LLC, Washington, D.C. Born: Montreal, QC. Gwen Tolbart is a successful, Emmy Award-winning and five-time Emmy-nominated television broadcaster, professional speaker and author. She holds a BA in Journalism from Montreal’s Concordia University and is a Social Science graduate of Dawson College [...]

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September 21, 2010 British Columbia

TweetHematologist & Medical Oncologist, Hematology / Oncology Consultancy, Cancer Centres of Canada & U.S.A., Vancouver, BC. Born: Ibadan, Nigeria. Dr. Christopher Kwesi Oladipupo Williams has specialized in the area of cancer care, clinical hematology and cancer research throughout the course of his career. Highlights: Medical: Medical Oncologist, Olympic Medical Cancer Center, Port Angeles, Washington State, [...]

September 11, 2010 British Columbia

TweetProfessor (Retired), White Rock, Philadelphia, PA. Born: Philadelphia, USA. Jim Adams was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1943 and lived Philadelphia until the age of twenty-four when he moved west to California. In Philadelphia, he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from Temple University and his Masters Degree from the University of Pennsylvania. While [...]

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September 5, 2010 Actor

TweetProducer, Author, Performer/ CEO, Owner, TwoCan Productions, Alberta & Las Vegas. Born: Los Angeles, CA. Audrei-Kairen Kotaska is an award-winning playwright, actor, singer and director. Originally hailing from the U.S., she now resides in both Canada and Los Angeles. She serves on the Boards of the Las Vegas Jazz Society and the Ira B. Aldredge [...]

August 25, 2010 Media

TweetWriter / Broadcaster, Emergency Management Ontario, Mississauga, ON. Born: Lansing, Michigan. Writer and journalist, Jude Kelly has also hosted and produced a number of music series for CBC Radio including, Future Jazz, Soul on the Streets, The Nu Groove, and The Archie Alleyne Story. His commentaries and reviews have appeared in the National Post, Canadian [...]

August 19, 2010 Athletics

TweetPresident / CEO, TM Williams LLC, Beverly Hills, CA. Born: Toronto, ON. Taly Williams is an Environmental Engineer and former Professional Athlete who has received international recognition for his involvement in environmental remediation projects worldwide. In 1999, he assisted in the design and oversaw the construction of the first drinking water facility in U.S. history to [...]

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Charmaine Hooper
TweetSoccer Player, Texas, U.S.A. Born: Guyana. Charmaine Hooper is a professional soccer player who has had a wealth of international experience and success. Born in Guyana, she began playing soccer as a child in Zambia, where her father was posted with the Guyana High Commission. In addition to playing for Canada, she has also played in the U.S., [...]
Paul Winn
TweetHuman Rights Activist / Lawyer / COO & CEO, The Great Little Water Company & Veritas Hydrophobic Polymer Inc., New Westminster, BC. Born: Toronto, ON. Paul Winn is a former civil servant, former broadcaster, and community and human rights activist. In 2003, he ceased to practice law after opening his firm in 1999, and joined the [...]
Gaëtane Verna
TweetExecutive Director & Chief Curator, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, QC. Born: Kinshasa, Republic of Congo. Gaëtane Verna is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Musée d’art de Joliette, an institution of international calibre set in the heart of Québec. The Museums’s collection, holds close to 9,000 works and presents an overview of [...]
Lennox Farrell
TweetTeacher (Retired) / Author / Community Organizer, Niagara Falls, ON. Born: Trinidad & Tobago. As a retired teacher, writer, author, publisher, and community organizer, Lennox Farrell was and is among those advocating for positive, needed social change in Toronto in the 1980s, especially, but not exclusively with regards to issues affecting the Black communty and [...]
Beverly Mascoll – In Memoriam
Tweet(1942 – 2001) Founder / Philanthropist / Mentor / Community Builder, Mascoll Beauty Supply Ltd. & Beverly Mascoll Community Foundation, Toronto, ON. Born: Fall River, Nova Scotia. Born and raised in Nova Scotia, Beverly Mascoll was an entrepreneur, an astute businesswoman and a highly-respected community leader. After her family relocated to Toronto in her early [...]
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