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A Different Booklist Cultural Centre’s New Name

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  Watering the Seeds for the Future of Bathurst St Community   IT was a press conference and update about A Different Booklist Cultural Centre (ADBCC)and its masterplan to get bigger, louder and wear a new name.  At a Friday presser held at the bookstore at Bathurst and Bloor in downtown Toronto, organizer and store owner Itah Sadu threatened to shout down the city with her good words of emancipation and neighbourhood   The Cultural Centre is a non-profit community group committed to studying and promoting the history of African and Caribbean Canadian ancestry. It will build a large multi-purpose permanent headquarters in the large construction site known as the Mirvish Village project recently demolished Honest Ed’s  department story. The construction sight is right across the street from the existing bookstore and cultural meeting hall.   At the noon-hour presser was Anthony Joseph, the publisher of th Caribbean Camera along with other members of the press, politicians, the public  a