Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Cecil Foster, Dionne Brand, Malcolm Gladwell, Rinaldo Walcott, George Elliott Clarke, Josiah Henson, Dan Hill, M. NourbeSe Philip, Charles R. Saunders, Nalo Hopkinson, Orville Lloyd Douglas, Andre Alexis, Frances-Anne Solomon, Mary Ann Shadd, Clement Virgo, Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, Dany Laferriere, Louise Uwacu, Lawrence Hill, Chris Spence, Stephen Williams, D'bi Young, Austin Clarke, Annmarie Morais, Nega Mezlekia, Afua Cooper, Olive Senior, Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, Trey Anthony, Honor Ford-Smith, Jane Musoke-Nteyafas, Malcolm Azania, Wayde Compton, Michele Clarke, Makeda Silvera, Djanet Sears, Carrie Best, Mairuth Sarsfield, Angele Bassole-Ouedraogo, David Chariandy, George Boyd, Didier Leclair, Robert Edison Sandiford, Robert Adetuyi, Kaie Kellough, Sudz Sutherland, Royson James. Excerpt: Dionne Brand (born January 7, 1953 Guayaguayare, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009. Dionne Brand graduated from Naparima Girls' High School in 1970, and immigrated to Canada, to attend the University of Toronto, where she earned a BA in 1975. Brand also holds a MA (1989) from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education - OISE. Currently Brand teaches at the University of Guelph. Brand frequently explores themes of gender, race, sexuality and feminism in her writing. In "Bread Out of Stone," Brand uses personal experiences and strong metaphoric language to expose racism, white male domination, injustices and the moral hypocrisies of Canada with its own assessment as being "not like the United States" As a show of support of women solidarity, Brand has participated in many anthologies and writing opposing the violent killings of Black men and women and specifically pointing out the massacre of fourteen women in Montreal a...