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Ricky Neckles

April 26, 2011 British Columbia

TweetPublic Speaker / Community Servant / President, Neckles Global Enterprise Inc. (NGE) & Co-Founder, TNTech Canada Inc., Vancouver, BC. Born:St. Andrew’s, Grenada. As an Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, and Community Servant, the name Ricky Neckles is synonymous with excellence and leadership. His academic performance at the University of Toronto earned him the role of Business Development Analyst during his [...]

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April 25, 2011 Athletics

TweetBoxer (Retired) / Coach / Trainer / Owner / President, Vanderpool Boxing & Fitness, Kitchener, ON. Born: Trinidad & Tobago. Fitzroy Vanderpool is a boxing champion who has won national and international boxing titles. During his professional career from 1993-2005, he had a record of 24 wins (13 by KO), 6 losses, and 4 draws, and became World [...]

April 20, 2011 Community

TweetPercussionist / Founder / Artistic Director, Muhtadi Drumming Festival, Toronto, ON. Born: Trinidad & Tobago. Muhtadi Thomas immigrated to Canada from Trinidad and Tobago in 1974. As one of Canada’s premier percussionists, Muhtadi plays djembe, bongos, congas, timbales, steel pan, and a wide assortment of other percussion instruments. He has performed extensively, both nationally and [...]

April 8, 2011 Community

TweetExecutive Director, Polycultural Immigrant & Community Services, Toronto, ON. Born: Bridgetown, Barbados. Carl Cadogan has been the Executive Director of Polycultural Immigrant & Community Services since June 2008. As an organization that has undergone many changes in the last thirty years or so, starting out as a Polish organization and then the amalgamation of two [...]

April 6, 2011 Administration

TweetSenior Advisor, Toronto District School Board, Toronto, ON. Born: Trinidad & Tobago. Lloyd McKell has been an educator with the Toronto District School Board for thirty-five years, and is a member of the Senior Executive Team. He currently holds the position of Senior Advisor at the Toronto District School Board. In this position and in [...]

March 29, 2011 Business

TweetExecutive Director, Jane Finch Concerned Citizens Organization & President, African Canadian Communication & Broadcasting Corporation (ACCBC), Toronto, ON. Born: Guyana. 72-year-old Winston LaRose is the director of the Jane Finch Concerned Citizens Organization. Every year, he works closely with Tropicana Community Services in providing summer job opportunities for youth. Since 1997, Winston and the JFCCO [...]

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March 25, 2011 Activism

TweetMay 7, 1934 – March 24, 2011 Civil Rights Activist / Executive Director, Black Action Defence Committee, Toronto, ON. Born: Jamaica. Celebrating Dudley’s life & contributions: Download his complete funeral program here. A welder and mechanic by trade, Dudley Laws emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1955 and became involved in defending the West [...]

March 10, 2011 Alberta

TweetGospel Artist / Founder & Director of the Black Pioneer Heritage Singers & Youth Empowerment Manager, Edmonton, AB. Born: Edmonton, AB. Junetta Jamerson is a fifth-generation descendant of a very musical Black-American family that settled in Wildwood, Alberta in 1911 (her father, LeVero Carter, is considered the father of gospel music in Edmonton). As a [...]

March 9, 2011 Community

TweetManager, Alumni Relations, University of Toronto & Co-Founder / Program Director, Black Pearls Community Services Inc., Toronto, ON. Born: Toronto, ON. Kimberley has been employed with the University of Toronto for the past nine years, working in various roles in Advancement (Awareness Programs Coordinator, Alumni Relations and Annual Fund; Young Alumni Programs Coordinator; Alumni Programs [...]

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March 4, 2011 Author

TweetAuthor / Historian / Sergeant, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Halifax, NS. Born: Halifax, NS. Craig Marshall Smith has been a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) since 1997. He has served as the RCMP Diversity Policing Analyst for Nova Scotia, and was just recently been promoted to the rank of Sergeant-in-Charge of the [...]

March 3, 2011 Author

TweetSpeech Language Pathologist / Clinical Lead, Collage Pediatric Therapy, Vancouver, BC. Born: Washington, DC. E. Elisabeth Nyang is a certified speech language pathologist who is an expert in working with clients with articulation, language, feeding, and swallowing disorders. She is one of the first Black speech language pathologists to practice in British Columbia and is [...]

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February 7, 2011 BHM Feature

TweetDental Surgeon, Dr. Kenneth Montague & Associates / Founder, The Wedge, Toronto, ON. Born: Windsor, ON. A graduate of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto, Dr. Kenneth Montague is a full-time dentist, as well as an art collector and curator. Since opening in 1992, Dr. Montague’s dental office has grown from an [...]

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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., [...]
Dr. Bonny Ibhawoh
TweetAssociate Professor, Department of History, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON. Born: Nigeria. Dr. Bonny Ibhawoh teaches African, Global and Human Rights History at McMaster University’s Department of History. He also teaches in the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, and is an Adjunct Faculty in Social Justice and Equity Studies at Brock University where he [...]
Njacko Backo
TweetMusician / Educator, Toronto, ON. Born: Cameroon. Entertainer, musician, composer, dancer, choreographer, author and educator, Njacko Backo shares his uplifting music and hope-filled stories with audiences of all ages and all walks of life. Njacko was born in Cameroon in 1958 and raised in the hills in a small village called Bazou. Musically and spiritually, Njacko draws on [...]
Ingrid Walter
TweetCommunications & Media Consultant / Writer, Walter & Company, Toronto, ON. Born: Jamaica. Ingrid Walter is a writer/editor and communications specialist, who has worked in TV, radio, print, publishing, politics, government, the NGO and corporate sectors. Highlights: In 2010, Ingrid managed media relations for the WRA Maternal Mortality Campaign’s Canadian spokesperson, lawyer Maureen McTeer, in [...]
Anthony Sherwood
TweetActor/Director, Anthony Sherwood Productions, Brampton, ON. Born: Halifax, NS. Anthony Sherwood is an African-Canadian artist whose career spans over 30 years performing on stage, television and in motion pictures. He is one of Canada’s most successful Black actors having performed in more than 150 television and feature film projects. This versatile performer has worked with [...]
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