Sankofa Square
Fountain-lined plaza and video-screen gathering spot, renamed for a West African symbol of memory.
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This guide to Sankofa Square in Toronto opens with Henry Dundas, whose amendment delayed abolition and whose name still marked this downtown plaza two centuries later. It traces the square from its 2002 opening, twenty fountains anchoring a revival of Yonge Street, through the 2020 reckoning that sent the question of the name to a twenty-member committee of Black and Indigenous Toronto leaders. Listen among the fountains and screens where film festivals and a WorldPride ceremony once drew the crowds.
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