by Marian McGrath | Feb 17, 2023 | Black History Month
Jully Black is a Canadian icon in entertainment, best known as a singer, songwriter, actor, andtelevision and media personality. Born in Toronto, she is the child of Jamaican immigrantparents, the youngest of nine children and the first in her family to be born in...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 16, 2023 | Black History Month
Michaëlle Jean is a social activist, stateswoman, diplomat humanitarian, journalist anddocumentary filmmaker, and was the 27 th Governor General, Commander-in-Chief of Canada,from 2005 to 2010 – the first Black person and the first Haitian Canadian to hold...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 15, 2023 | Black History Month
Dany Laferrière is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, poet, journalist and public intellectual. Winnerof the prestigious Prix Medicis, Laferrière is the first Haitian, Canadian and Québécois to beelected to the Académie française. Laferrière is renowned for...
by E WK | Feb 14, 2023 | Black History Month
Lincoln MacCauley Alexander (1922-2012) Lincoln Alexander was born in Toronto, the son of immigrants from the Caribbean. Because of racism, many forms of employment were not open to Black Canadians. As a result, Alexander’s mother worked as a maid, and his father, who...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 13, 2023 | Black History Month
Bushra Junaid is a Nigerian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist, curator, author and artsadministrator. She was born in Montréal to Jamaican and Nigerian parents, and raised inNewfoundland and Labrador. Her background and experiences have given her a...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 12, 2023 | Black History Month
George Brooks (on the left in photo) lived a long, multi-faceted and adventurous life, as a renowned story-teller, a singer and a soldier. He served in three major wars: the Civil War; the Spanish-American War; and the First World War. In fact, he enlisted in the...
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