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Recipient of the Dr. Allan Burnley (Rocky) Jones Individual Award at the Nova Scotia Human Rights Award (2016) for her "commitment to advancing human rights, equity and inclusion."
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in June 2020 about "the realities of white-supremacist oppression that black people in Canada have long experienced."
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Named a Bold Visionary in 2014 by the A Bold Vision National Leadership Conference.
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Since 2016, she has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour on
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In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing
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Racism, colonialism, prison reform, human rights, social justice
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is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in
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Jones in 2018
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University of Iowa
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prison abolition
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