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The outcome of the national elections will not only set the stage for the presidential campaign, it will also determine how the last two years of the Obama administration will play out. Yet, for the majority of 45 million Black Americans who want improvement in our overall quality of life, we must reassert our interests in record numbers at the ballot box.
No doubt there is a reality and spirit of discontent in the Black community about the many socioeconomic disparities, incidents of fatal racial attacks, increasing disproportionate mass incarceration, and the systematic efforts of right wing groups to suppress the Black vote. But this is not the time to become so frustrated with the politics of racial division and oppression that that we feel alienated and cynical. This is not a time for hopelessness. Rather, it is time for sober analysis and political action.
I believe that we should be using the weeks leading up to the November elections to significantly increase voter registration and to plan for the largest voter turnout possible.
Traditionally, off-year elections spell trouble for the party occupying the White House. In , Democrats lost 63 House seats and six in the Senate. There's so many hurdles for becoming a classical musician. Which is why, when working as an educator, I remind people about possibilities in hip-hop production and more accessible pathways to music because I need to be realistic that it takes a year investment in training to become a really proficient classical musician and check all the boxes and expectations. Those are not accessible for the vast majority of Indigenous communities, for so many reasons.
The summer of Prior to that I was based in Ottawa. I just finished shooting an APTN episode about that whole transitional process last week. I'm pretty excited about that right now.
For me, it was kind of picking up where my mother left off. They are symptoms of mental illness and antisocial and narcissistic personality characteristics. The team honoured her request, which meant the show ate the enormous cost of sending a production team to Agra only to come back without the money shot that everyone was expecting. The summer of October 20th, Tags: According to the Associated Press, Blacks outvoted Whites in both and
My mother was born in northwestern Ontario but she was a part of the Sixties Scoop, so it was kind of a lifelong process for her and she's still alive and well and we talk every day. For me, it was kind of picking up where my mother left off.
Reconnecting with our biological family, knowing the territory but not our family, and then we started finding people on Facebook and I started making trips up [here]. There was a job in journalism that opened up here so I decided to apply for the job, which would have me working in my family's community, Obishikokaang Lac Seul First Nation. So, the job financed the move and once I finished that contract, I decided to stay and it's because I knew that if I wanted to continue learning more about my culture and learning more about my family history, it's not something I can do in a series of weeklong trips.
I felt like I needed to really live here for a number of years to build that relationship with the land. As an artist who so strongly identifies my practice within being Anishinaabe, I kind of reached my limits of what I could learn within an urban setting. Though I appreciated the urban community, if we talk about being Indigenous as being a land-based person, I ultimately need to rebuild that relationship with the land.
This is your first Indigenous Music Award nomination.
Can you tell me what that recognition means to you? So I appreciate being recognized among my peers especially since, as part of the instrumental music category, it's so broad. In previous years there's been people like Cris Derksen, who's definitely more of an immediate peer and we have a lot in common in our musical practice, but looking at the category this year, it is — and has always been — dominated a lot by flute players.
I like being able to show that diversity — that instrumental music can look like a lot of different things, just as Indigenous music encompasses all of the different genres. How do you choose with whom to collaborate? Those actresses include Katherine Kendall and Melissa Sagemiller.
It also has interviews with journalists, agents, psychologists, former Miramax employees and lawyers as it looks at the debates surrounding such allegations, the impact of these cases, and the systemic and cultural issues leading to harassment. Allen has long denied the allegations and was investigated but not charged. Ghomeshi was found not guilty. Henein is now representing a Toronto actress suing Weinstein for sexual assault.
The allegations have not been tested in court.