Kiki Afolabi

While she didn't have the resources or skill to make an actual doll out of plastic, she thought making sock dolls would be fun. She had seen them before, and they reminded her of her little niece. However, after searching the Internet for ideas on how to best represent her niece's skin tone with a darker-skinned doll, she wasn't prepared for what she found. “When I googled Black sock dolls, the first thing that came up was mammy dolls and slave dolls and antique dolls from the slave era,” she says.

Real Blackity Talk, premiered on March 18 on CBC Gem, hosted by two extra-talented and jovial sisters, Aiza and Kamana Ntibarikure. The idea for the show came about during the initial COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020. At the time, Aiza and Kamana had moved in together and felt like their lives had come to a halt like everyone else.

After coming in second by just four percent in the 2018 elections, Marjorie-Ann Knight has decided to run as Cambridge's NDP provincial candidate. Knight is a Black woman who has been around for a long time. She's seen a lot of things. When asked why she decided to run again, she said it was because of unfinished business. She said she needed to address things she couldn't do during the last campaign. One might wonder what kind of "things" inspired Knight to run again.