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Caribbean Cultural Centre Coming to A Computer Near You by Stephen Weir A Different Booklist Cultural Centre (ADBCC) recently partnered with the Afri-Can FoodBasket and Pan Fantasy Steelband to host  Filling the Gap: Love ,  Light and Hope Campaign –  an emergency fund set up in response to COVID-19 “to support and give back to the Caribbean and African Canadian communities.” The proceeds from this fund  provide food items and meals to seniors, single-parent families and those with special needs.  The Cultural Centre is also using social media to provide online programming for children who are at home. “People should check out our FaceBook site and watch what we have on  A Different Booklist Cultural Centre (ADBCC) YouTube channel,” said Itah Sadu, co-owner of  the ADBCC.  ” Folks will see  Welcome to Blackhurst Moments . an online exhibition that commemorates the contributions of Black immigrants to the Bathurst Steet neighbourhood. “All our various social media s

South African granddaughter of Desmond  Tutu launches her new book on Martin Luther Day at ADBCC on Bathurst The A Different Booklist Cultural Centre (ADBCC), in conjunction with Penguin Random House is marking Martin Luther King Day with a superstar evening book signing!   On January 20th,   Nompumelelo (Mungi) Ngomane, the granddaughter of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be launching her new book Everyday Ubuntu in Canada. "This book will open your eyes, mind and heart to a way of being in the world that will make our world a better and more caring one," says Mungi’s biggest fan, her grandfather Desmond Tutu. Never heard of Ubuntu? It is a South African based philosophy which teaches that people’s common humanity and interconnectedness is key to living a better life. By embracing the philosophy of Ubuntu and living it out in daily life it's possible to overcome division and be stronger together. There are 14 lessons in Everyda

Late journalist's Caribbean books come to Bathurst Street By Stephen Weir   Colin (l), Stephen Weir (m) and Craigg Slowly (r) Toronto bookstore owner Itah Sadu   is busy organizing hundreds of books that have just been donated to her Different Booklist Cultural Centre on Bathurst Street in preparation for the unveiling later this month of the Colin Rickards Collection. Rickards, a tireless reporter and columnist for the Caribbean Camera, suffered a fatal heart attack at his East York home eight years ago, just month before his 74th birthday.   “Colin was voracious reader and a book collector of all things Caribbean,” Sadu told the Caribbean Camera.   “ The oldest book in this collection dates back to 1896. He had a real interest in all aspects of the Caribbean from the Indo presence to the Chinese presence to the Afro presence.   This is probably the most complete library of the Diaspora culture in the city.” Apart from   coll