The songs of African-American slaves who crossed into Canada are more than 150 years old, but Vancouver-based musician Khari McClelland still takes pride in them today. McClelland’s great-great-great-grandmother Kizzy is one of those slaves, forgotten by the history books but remembered fondly by family. Even her last name has been lost. “She is totally the reason for my being,” says McClelland, a member of Vancouver-based gospel group The Sojourners. This is one of the few photographs of

A twin brother and sister duo put on a show for Montreal high school students to prompt them to reconsider their beliefs about race and what they think they know about black history.

In this month marking black history in Canada, we speak with Canadian Senator Anne C. Cools.

Senator Cools was the first black person to become a Canadian senator, and the first black woman senator in North America. These are just two of the many firsts and other leading roles she has taken on in her life.

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.

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

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.

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