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1 week ago | 
halifaxexaminer.ca | Evelyn White
Evelyn C. White is a journalist and author whose books include Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships (Seal Press, 1985,) The Black Women’s Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves... More by Evelyn C. White
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3 weeks ago | 
halifaxexaminer.ca | Evelyn White
Evelyn C. White is a journalist and author whose books include Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships (Seal Press, 1985,) The Black Women’s Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves... More by Evelyn C. White
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1 month ago | 
halifaxexaminer.ca | Evelyn White
Skip to content Home » Black Nova Scotia » ‘Collective effort to not let her be erased’: Exhibit honours first documented Black woman artist in Canada “From Africville: The Paintings of Edith MacDonald-Brown (1886-1954)” is on display at the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery until Saturday.
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2 months ago | 
halifaxexaminer.ca | Evelyn White
Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world. In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
sfbaytimes.com | Evelyn White
By Evelyn C. White–As the official biographer of Alice Walker, I spent nearly a decade researching the art and activism of a writer whose signature work, The Color Purple (1982), has sold more than five million copies and been translated into more than thirty languages. Moreover, The Color Purple has been adapted for two Hollywood movies and multiple stage productions in the U.S. and abroad.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
sfbaytimes.com | Evelyn White
By Evelyn White–January 28, 2025, will mark the 65th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s death. Here’s an excerpt from my book, Alice Walker: A Life (2004) that recounts Alice’s reclamation of the author that she, now 80, celebrates as a literary foremother. “Today, visitors to the Garden of the Heavenly Rest will find a well-manicured cemetery … . But on the sweltering day when Alice first visited the site, it was choked with waist-high brambles and weeds.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
halifaxexaminer.ca | Evelyn White
Today when the airwaves will be awash with political pundits and prognosticators, let us consider the poets. “When Black and White See Eye to Eye” by Maxine Tynes (1949-2011), from Save The World For Me (1991, Pottersfield Press). … Good times go round and roundBut when they don’t Some push, some shoutSome fight; all stand and frown.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
halifaxexaminer.ca | Evelyn White
Early in my career, I was fortunate to count as a colleague reporter Randy Shilts whose bestselling book And the Band Played On (1987) chronicled the rise of the AIDS epidemic. Now comes Michael G. Lee whose new biography, When the Band Played On, provides a powerful portrait of the journalist who died from complications of AIDS in 1994, at age 42.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
halifaxexaminer.ca | Yvette d'Entremont |Evelyn White |Philip Moscovitch |Suzanne Rent
Skip to content Posted inArts and Culture “Queer culture exists not just because of what we create in the present, but because of the efforts of historians (and the history-curious) to preserve and re-create the stories of our shared past.” Posted inArts and Culture, Morning File Posted inArts and Culture, Black Nova Scotia, Morning File Posted inArts and Culture, Climate Posted inArts and Culture, Immigration, Morning File Posted inCity Hall Posted inArts and Culture, Black Nova Scotia,...
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
halifaxexaminer.ca | Yvette d'Entremont |Zane Woodford |Evelyn White |Stephen Kimber
Posted inArts and Culture “Queer culture exists not just because of what we create in the present, but because of the efforts of historians (and the history-curious) to preserve and re-create the stories of our shared past.” Posted inArts and Culture, Black Nova Scotia, Equity and Equality, Profiles Posted inJournalism Yvette d’Entremont has compiled an extensive list of resources and helpful Halifax Examiner articles Writing essays for the Halifax Examiner since 2015. All the lists from...
