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Wendell Adjetey and Akwasi Owusu-Bempah connected the first time they met on the Mississauga transit six years ago.

In addition to their Ghanaian heritage, they have a passion for working with underprivileged young people and they are committed advocates for equality and social justice.

Former Toronto Argonauts linebacker, Orlando Bowen, was beaten by two Peel police officers in a Mississauga restaurant parking lot some eight years ago which left him with a concussion, a nasty gash on his forehead and blackened eyes.

Bowen alleged at the time that one of the officers planted drugs on him.

The cop was found guilty of seven criminal charges in June 2010, including charges related to the disappearance of fake cocaine that was being used in an RCMP sting and is currently serving a sentence of almost six years in a federal jail.

 

York University's Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean (CERLAC) launched a unique research partnership last summer utilizing the arts to explore violence among young people in Canada and Jamaica.

Black youth from the two countries confronted the systemic violence that marks their lives and initiated conversations about how they might interrupt those complex patterns of aggression and hostility.

The project title is "Youth and Community Development in Canada and Jamaica: A Transnational Approach to Youth Violence."

 

Students and teachers from the Africentric Alternative School were recognized during a recent visit to Toronto's City Hall. Councillors James Pasternak, Maria Augimeri and Michael Thompson greeted the students who were presented with scrolls celebrating their achievements and to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The students also watched Council debate the 2012 budget.