War Of 1812: George Elliott Clarke

Inaccurate Portrayals Dept: The award-winning poet and author has teamed up with acclaimed spoken word artist El Jones to talk about black refugees from the War of 1812, according to The Chronicle Herald. Clarke says inaccurate portrayals of black refugees, who fled the conflict between the Americans and the British, carry into today. And those accounts set the foundation for stereotypes that persist and george Elliott Clarke is trying to right a 200-year-old wrong one speaking engagement at a time. But the tour, starting again in March, isn t just a history lesson. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.