Lynn Jones

• Community organizers launches fund to provide stipends for Black Nova Scotians

  Halifax community leaders are fundraising grants for Black Nova Scotians impacted by COVID-19 and daily challenges.

  Jun 10, 2020
  
• Jagmeet Singh apologizes to former Nova Scotia candidate wronged by party in 1993

  "I want to apologize to the African Canadian and the African Nova Scotia community."

  Politics

  Feb 29, 2020
  
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• Black community responds to alleged police assault of Halifax woman

  Robert Wright, says police credibility is rightfully on the line based on evidence of systemic racism.

  Crime

  Jan 17, 2020
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• N.S. town moves to address concerns after ‘watching deer while black’ incident

  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."

  Canada

  Oct 11, 2019
• Protest calls for $15 minimum wage in Nova Scotia, the province with lowest minimum wage in Canada

  As of Oct. 1, Nova Scotia has the lowest minimum wage in the country at $11 an hour, trailing Saskatchewan by six cents.

  Canada

  Oct 2, 2018
• Fired black janitors in Halifax find new jobs, Joel Plaskett pens song of support

  In an email to Global News, Armour Group, the property manager of the historic Hollis Street building, has said it terminated its contract with the cleaning contractor GDI Services — the company who had employed the janitors — over poor cleaning services.

  Canada

  Mar 29, 2018
• ‘Brutality is not a part of your job,’ pastor tells Halifax police at church service

  Pastor Rhonda Britton said people need to speak up to address inequalities and other issues impacting the black community.

  Canada

  Mar 18, 2018
• Children in Halifax create book on Atlantic slave trade reparations

  The event was organized by the Nova Scotia chapter of the Global Afrikan Congress to get young people engaged in the topic.

  Canada

  Feb 24, 2018
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• Collection chronicling four decades of African Nova Scotian civil rights launched

  Lynn Jones' collection documenting more than 50 years of civil rights and social justice struggles in Nova Scotia and beyond has been officially unveiled to the public.

  Canada

  Apr 13, 2017