{"id":764,"date":"2020-06-01T08:31:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/?p=764"},"modified":"2020-06-01T08:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:31:01","slug":"hero-of-the-week-desmond-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/2020\/06\/01\/hero-of-the-week-desmond-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero of the Week &#8211; Desmond Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 1-5<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ryerson.ca\/content\/dam\/wpc-global\/speakers\/desmond-cole-800X600.png\" alt=\"Desmond Cole\" width=\"387\" height=\"290\" \/>\u00a0\u201cPeople can first of all, educate themselves and one another. That\u2019s why I believe in books. That\u2019s why I believe in journalism. That\u2019s why I believe in storytelling.&#8221; &#8211; Desmond Cole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Desmond Cole is an activist and freelance journalist in Toronto. His work also appears in the Toronto Star, Toronto Life, Walrus, VICE, NOW Magazine, Torontoist, and Ethnic Aisle.\u00a0 His first book titled \u00a0<em><u>The Skin We\u2019re In<\/u><\/em> \u00a0came out in January 2020. CBC Books\u00a0placed the book on its 2020 winter reading list,\u00a0and it became the bestselling Canadian nonfiction book for the week of February 9\u201315, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Cole was born in Red Deer, Alberta on April 9, 1982 and grew up in Oshawa, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Desmond has been documenting social justice in Toronto, and had written extensively about the black experience in this city.<\/p>\n<p>His work with the Black Lives Matter movement and more recently his successful effort to remove the Toronto Police presence from TDSB schools have pushed his voice to the forefront. Desmond has also worked to address housing, social support, integration, civic engagement and justice for youth.<\/p>\n<p>Information taken from: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryerson.ca\/wpc-global\/speakers\/5-desmond-cole\/\">https:\/\/www.ryerson.ca\/wpc-global\/speakers\/5-desmond-cole\/<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desmond_Cole\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desmond_Cole<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 1-5 \u00a0\u201cPeople can first of all, educate themselves and one another. That\u2019s why I believe in books. That\u2019s why I believe in journalism. That\u2019s why I believe in storytelling.&#8221; &#8211; Desmond Cole Desmond Cole is an activist and freelance journalist in Toronto. His work also appears in the Toronto Star, Toronto Life, Walrus, VICE, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/andersonm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}