This Montreal gym owner uses kickboxing to promote kindness

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CBC Quebec is highlighting people from the province’s Black communities who are giving back, inspiring others and helping to shape our future. These are the Black Changemakers.

Herby Whyne was on the lookout for a Montreal neighbourhood to match his character.

After condo developments put an end to the professional kickboxer’s plan to open a gym in Villeray, he set his sights on the Sud-Ouest borough.

Seventeen years later, Hard Knox Gym has become a Saint-Henri institution, drawing curious fitness novices and veteran boxers from all over the island to its modest facilities. And most of them are women.

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