<p><b>The long-awaited autobiography of former Canadian Senator, lawyer, and outspoken spokesperson for diversity and minority advancement, detailing his life as a Black man working within the system to bring change to Nova Scotia and beyond.<\/b><\/p><p>Growing up in the only Black family in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Donald Oliver felt duty-bound to honour his great-grandparents, who had fled slavery in the US. His childhood, surrounded by music, family, and respected, hard-working role models, was idyllic. His family’s fundamental family creed was \u00ab\u00a0work hard, be humble, love the Lord, and do all you can to help other people.\u00a0\u00bb<br>
\nDonald Oliver would go on to embody those values in a big way. In his long-anticipated memoir, Oliver, now retired, looks back at a life lived in service to others. In his own careful and thoughtful words, he examines his days as a lawyer, an outspoken social activist, and a teacher, and of course he reflects on his twenty-three years of service as a member of the Senate of Canada.<br>
\nA diplomat to his core, Donald Oliver has dedicated his life to rooting out the systemic racism that has stalled the growth of Canada’s Black citizens \u2013 his work a testament to the truth that Black Lives Matter. Now, through dozens of black and white and colour images, and thorough intimate, personal reflections, <i>A Matter of Equality: The Exemplary Life of Senator Don Oliver<\/i> examines the legacy of the first man, and the second Canadian, to bring the Black experience directly to the upper house.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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