Blog & Updates

In November and December 2016 in a series of blogs I wrote on my website, www.daviddivine.co relating to youth crime and violence and the 11 gun killings in Nova Scotia in 2016 by the time of writing one of my blogs, six of whom were Black, I explored what I...

I look out of my living room window onto a lake-a small lake, bordered by trees, and made by human kind. It is beautiful, peaceful, urging you to reflect on other things than pressures, work, relationships, anything negative. Restoring you to a height where you can...

Last week I outlined the claim to fame of a young world -class football player, Justin Fashanu (1961-1997). He lived his short life in the glare of public inspection. Commented upon, praised, criticised, applauded and denigrated. All part and parcel of being ‘owned’...

Justin Fashanu, Norwich City. ©EMPICS / Peter Robinson files In life’s passage, there are individuals, places, events, that remain stubborn in departing from memory. Refusing to be eclipsed. With time, some of the contours of the remnants of such memories may become...

In celebration of African Heritage Month and Canada 150, Professor David Divine, former James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University (2004-2009), will give a presentation on this year’s theme: Passing the...

Last week I commented on the guise defined by others as to how we as Black men look, behave, believe, interact with others, in order to fit an image that can be lived with, and controlled by, those who do not look like us. Two questions immediately arise: Why does...