2016

Is Black History Month limiting the teaching of black history?

Educators questioning how to broaden black history teaching year-round By Joseph Quigley, CBC News Natasha Henry, an educator and historian in Mississauga, Ont., has worked for years developing programs and workshops aimed at getting more teachers to add black history to their curriculum. As February is Black History Month in Canada and the U.S., teachers across the country will be injecting more of the subject into their classrooms. But Henry wants people to

Ban blackface in Quebec, online petition by ‘mosquitoes’ pleads

‘Blackface is the caricature of a black person,’ says head of advocacy group CBC News A group of Quebec artists calling themselves “Les Moustiques” (the mosquitoes) launched an online petition calling for the end of blackface in Quebec. “Blackface is the caricature of a black person,” said Emilie Nicolas, president of advocacy group Québec inclusif, and one of the petition’s authors. “It’s rooted in slavery here in Quebec…Using a white

Filmmaker Barbara Chirinos celebrates black history month with VIFF film series

When filmmaker Barbara Chirinos moved to Vancouver from New York City, she found a gap in the city’s film festivals: there was no celebration of black history.

So she started a series of her own, and VIFF Celebrates Black History Month in now in its fifth year.

This year, the festival explores issues around race, roots, and relocation, from the 1967 race riots in Montreal, to the African roots of tango, to the migrant crisis in Europe.

Montrealers shovel to the beat of African drums

3 men show off their dance moves while shovelling snow in Montreal, get global attention “Ask three Africans living in Canada to shovel and this is what you get.” That was the caption that accompanied Richard Laubonet’s video he posted last weekend onto his Facebook page. ‘Everyone hates shovelling, and I think the fact of seeing people doing it while dancing and having fun resonated with people.’ – Richard Laubonet

New historical video for Black History Month

Viola Desmond challenged segregation in the eastern province of Nova Scotia in the 1940s. And while she did not win her case, her story became a catalyst for change. And the story will now be brought to the Canadian public in a one-minute video prepared especially for Black History Month which is in February. Desmond was an entrepreneur who went to the movies and sat in the downstairs section reserved

PK Subban’s mother speaks at Blaxpo, inspires young Montreal professionals

Daybreak’s Shari Okeke speaks with PK Subban’s mother, Maria Subban, at Blaxpo, a Montreal exposition of entrepreneurs and guest speakers from the city’s black communities.

Faith and laughs keep Cicilia Laurent going at 120

Cicilia Laurent has just one birthday wish. The Haitian-born resident of Laval, Quebec, who turned 120 years old on Sunday, wants to meet Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and ask him a special favour. She wants Trudeau to allow her two great-grandsons in Haiti to visit her in Canada so she can see them again. Laurent, who celebrated her birthday at festive ceremony at the Haitian consulate in downtown Montreal

Documentary seeks to heal wounds left by landmark protest

Selwyn Jacob says he wanted to make a film about the infamous Sir George Williams Riot the moment he heard about it from his professor at the University of Alberta back in 1969. The Trinidadian-born award-winning producer at the National Film Board of Canada said he felt the reverberations of the protest by fellow Caribbean students in Montreal reach all the way to Alberta, especially since one of the protestors

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