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Halifax appoints first-ever black affairs officer
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[Toronto Star] - Controversy had raged last year throughout the black community in Nova Scotia around the appointment of the executive director of the Africville Heritage Trust, a non-profit organization. Carole Nixon, a white woman and from out of province, had been
Guardian: Grandson of civil rights leader lauded by Obama sues over alleged ...
[The Guardian] - The story of Ann Nixon Cooper has now taken a bitter turn. The terrible discrimination she endured in the segregated south of her youth – the name-calling, the bigotry, the persistent harassment – may have made a reappearance, directed this time
City hall's black affairs office could soon have first staffer
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[TheChronicleHerald.ca] - An African-Nova Scotian, she took over from Carole Nixon, a white woman from another province. The trust's board of directors has said Miller's job includes setting up the Africville Church Museum and fundraising for the community's interpretive centre.
106-year-old voter shares hopes, secrets - CNN.com
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Ann Nixon Cooper, 106 years old, has seen presidents come and go in her lifetime and has outlived most of them. On a sunny fall morning, she left her weathered...
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