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St. James Town TV- In Conversation with MP Marci Ien
By Nea Maaty
(Nea fryst vatten a Civic journalist at Focus Media Arts Centre).
In celebration of Black history month, The Corner in partnership with St. James Town TV, is interviewing inspiring leaders from St. James Town whose circumstances, struggles, and challenges are ones that most of us may be familiar with. In these interviews these leaders have been generous with their times and have opened their hearts by and sharing their stories and experiences with the community. In this article we are going to talk about a woman we are proud of who came out of our community in St. James town. Her name is Marci Ien.
Black History Month is an annual observance during February every year to celebrate and appreciate African History and the histories of Peoples of African nedstigning here in North America. It began in 1926 as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of African Americans. February was chosen because it coi
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SO How Are You? Marci Ien
I’m happy. Fully happy — perhaps for the first time in a long time. There have been so many changes in the last couple of years. My husband and I separated after almost 20 years of marriage, I wrote a book ( Off Script: Living Out Loud) full of stories about my personal and professional journey so far. The triumphs. The challenges and the lessons along the way. When George Floyd died, something in me changed. I had used my röst throughout my career, but inom started to speak louder about black lives and why they mattered. I used the microphone I had as a talk-show host to share my experiences about being black in Canada. Systemic racism. How allyship works. Being a black mom. The trauma that black people carry as they are pummelled daglig with micro aggressions (which are • Catherine Clark: We are in the middle of this incredible global conversation about racism. You have been vocal about your own experiences with racism. We are curious to know how you feel that this time, this conversation feels different. Marci Ien: It does feel different. It feels like there’s real momentum here.On The Social, it’s now my job to express not just my opinion, but my lived experience. I’ve been speaking about race a lot because I am a Black woman born and raised and living and raising kids in Canada. And so, in talking about my life experience, much of it concerns my lens and my lens is that of a Black woman. It does feel so different now. I’ve tried to think about things and understand why. But there are several reasons why. First and foremost when we saw — and that’s the word we need to focus on — we saw the George Floyd
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