Heard On The Hill

George Elliott Clarke completes late NDP MP Howard McCurdy’s book for him: ‘he was the most unforgettably proud Black man that I ever had the pleasure to know’

Also, Liberals plan a big 90th birthday bash in January 2024 for Jean Chrétien; Dalhousie creates new Senator Don Oliver Scholarship; and Richard Madan is picked up by CBC News in Washington.

The late Howard McCurdy, left, and George Elliott Clarke, pictured on the Hill in the early 1990s. 'Dr. Howard McCurdy was exemplary in self-sacrifice; he was stellar in avant-garde thought and vision; he was…the most unforgettably proud Black man that I ever had the pleasure to know.'The Hill Times photographs by Kate Malloy

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

November 13, 2023

Howard McCurdy, the Black activist and trail-blazer who represented the forming riding of Windsor-St. Clair, Ont., from 1984-1993, and who died of cancer in 2018, finally has his autobiography out.

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