Black Canada Talking™ is a live online event that provides Black Canadians opportunity to give their takes and POVs on stories that are of importance to them.
Our guest today on Black Canada Talking™ live at 5 p.m. Eastern/2 p.m. Pacific is Phil Vassell.
Phil Vassell is the Artistic Director of the Sauga City Music Festival and Conference, and the Executive Director of the Toronto Urban Music Festival Incorporated, which produced TUMF and the IRIE Music Festival. He is the Co-founder/Publisher of Word Magazine, Canada’s award-winning Black culture magazine which was published successfully from 1992 to 2012. Phil is a Harry Jerome Award Winner for Excellence in Business (2000) for WORD Magazine alongside Donna McCurvin. Before this, Phil acquired years of experience in radio and television broadcasting as the Advertising Manager at CIUT 89.5 FM and a key contributor to the launch of U of T’s campus/community radio station in 1987, and as a researcher at CBC National TV News including as a reporter at CBC TV News Windsor. Phil studied Political Science at the University of Toronto.
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