By Rebecca Karpus Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor — it may sound like Robin Hood, but it is also the story of Oleksa Dovbush. Born in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, Dovbush was known in the 18th century as a protector of the poor. Today, his legacy reminds the Dovbush Dancers
By Debra Spark Kunji Mark Ikeda spent the first 20 years of his life, in Vancouver, “trying to be as white as possible,” he says. Mayumi Lashbrook, raised on the other side of Canada, in Toronto, did the same. “This doesn’t have anything to do with me,” Lashbrook would insist as her mother introduced her