The name is Fatima McArthur. A young Black woman living in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. I was born and raised in the City of Detroit, State of Michigan. I've been living in the City of Ottawa since the summer of 2009. I came here for school and work. These days I attend Carleton University, one of the better schools down there. You might wonder w...
What's up, folks? My name is Jean-Bernard Guillot but my friends call me J.B. I'm a young Black man of Haitian descent living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. I study civil engineering at Carleton University. It's where I met criminology student and fellow Afro-centric social activist Mariam Hanaffi of Somalia, the young Muslim woman who changed my life. We m...
Part 1 of 3: The Professor's Bottom Fall semester was starting next week and Professor Zara Ebadi was headed to the Dean's office for a private meeting. The University was planning to hold the first "International Festival" on campus to highlight the diversity amongst its faculty and students. Students were encouraged to dress up and represent their herit...
He was called by many names -- Xšayaršā in Persian, Ahasuerus in Hebrew, and Xerxes the Great as he was known in Greece -- but was always known as the fourth king of kings of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia. His empire was vast -- stretching from Greece to Egypt to the Indus Valley -- and as such, his harem was populated with the most beautiful young women...
God, it gets me wet just thinking about those days. I mean, I know it was high school, but for us, it was the end of it all - high school I mean. We really were like gods - goddesses - in our own way. I don't know if it was how we talked, or walked, or dressed... maybe it was a combination of the three, but there was a certain threatening appeal to us. You'...
Jovita and Hanna strolled through the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the exhibit on Ancient Egypt. One the way there, Jovita expressed her excitement to Hanna. "Today, we're going to see the history of your ancestors." Hanna gently disagreed, "My ancestors are Jewish, not Egyptian. The Met doesn't bother showing Jewish culture, because the Jews never establi...
Hey, there. What's up? Kelvin James Guillot is the name, and I'm a young man living in the City of Toronto, Ontario. My father, Oscar Guillot, is Afro-Caribbean, originally from the island of Haiti, and my mother Jennifer Hughley is white, originally from the City of London, Ontario. I guess that makes me Haitian-Canadian. Cool. My folks met as students at Q...
"Wake the hell up, Samson, we're going to be late for class!" Those words, coming out of my girlfriend Farzana Hashemi's luscious lips, roused me out of a very good and restful sleep in a quiet corner of the Algonquin College library. I looked up at her through sleepy eyes, and forced a brave smile. Man, I am extremely T-I-R-E-D today. "Sorry, bay, I didn'...
As he entered the welcoming shade of the indoor garden, the mingled scents and colours of exotic flowers and fruit trees assailed his senses. Flowering Jasmine sweetened the air, scintillating his nostrils, enticing his brain with the heavy scent, mixing with the erotic sweetness of Ylang-Ylang blossoms and fragrant roses. He luxuriated in the scent, letting...
The name is Maryam Sharif, and I'm a young Muslim woman of Saudi Arabian descent living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. I study business administration at Carleton University, and these days life couldn't be better. Why is that, you may ask? My parents, Omar and Aisha Sharif still live in the City of Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and they're not coming to...