Black History Month profile: Beverley Salmon

Posted February 7, 2014 10:45 pm.

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CityNews reporter Tammie Sutherland speaks with Beverley Salmon, Toronto’s first female black councilllor, about the racial roadblocks she faced on the way to success.

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