Boyd became Canada's first Black national television news anchor in 1992 as a co-host of CBC Morning Newsworld.

To mark the last weekend of Re-Open City, African Nova Scotian businesses are taking over North End storefronts to show and sell their work.

“Nova Scotians are fortunate to have individuals of their character and experience who will preside over provincial and family court matters.”

The scholarship, the Global News Journalism Award, is intended to support diversity in not only journalism classrooms, but eventually in newsrooms across Canada.

'Launching the online resource during African Heritage Month 2020 is especially momentous and meaningful,' Lt.-Gov. Arthur LeBlanc said.

The province is investing money to support programs and services that will raise awareness, prevention and directly help victims and survivors.

On Nova Scotia's Heritage Day Monday, ceremonies focused on Africville, the historic Black community demolished by the City of Halifax in the 1960s.

Hockey Nova Scotia executive director Amy Walsh says the new team will include a human rights lawyer and representatives from the Indigenous, African Nova Scotian and LGBTQ communities.

Lynn Jones, who grew up in Truro and lives there part of the year, wrote a public letter on Aug. 30 describing the incident as "watching deer while black."

Justice Minister Mark Furey says the move would reinstate the largely Acadian ridings of Argyle, Clare and Richmond, as well as the predominantly African Nova Scotian riding of Preston.