ROBERT ASHE is a Halifax native who has worked as a sportswriter, street columnist and crime reporter. For twenty-five years he worked as a communications specialist with the national defense research and development agency. He is the author of five books, including Halifax Champion: Black Power in Gloves, They Called Me Chocolate Rocket, Seven Days in Halifax, Even the Babe Came to Play about a New Brunswick baseball team during the Great Depression, and a collection of columns about life in Saint John entitled, Just Enough Fog to Keep It Cool. He lives with his wife Brenda in Ottawa.
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Seven Days in Halifax
Brings to life a dramatic and forgotten episode in Halifax’s recent history, where the ignorance, incompetence and racism of the city’s power structure was laid bare.
$27.95, Paperback
They Called Me Chocolate Rocket
The incredible story of John Paris Jr, hockey's first Black professional coach whose life was equally compelling on and off the ice.
$22.95, Paperback