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The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission marked its 50th anniversary Friday with a conference looking at racial profiling, among other things.

One African-Nova Scotian man who was raised in public housing says anti-black racism in this province manifests itself in many different ways, including in cases of racial and criminal profiling.

"In criminal profiling, you're looking for behaviours and you get a brief description of a person," Dalhousie University social work student Tyler Upshaw said.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/racial-profiling-consumer-sobeys-social-work-anti-black-racism-1.3889990