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 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...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 11, 2023 | Black History Month
Maydianne Andrade is a Canadian ecologist and evolutionary biologist, renowned for her studies on the mating habits of spiders, and with professional interests in evolutionary ecology, sexual selection and adaptive plasticity. She is also an award-winning teacher,...
by Marian McGrath | Feb 10, 2023 | Black History Month
Charles Lightfoot Roman (1889-1961) Charles Lightfoot Roman was a surgeon, author, researcher and lecturer, and one of the first Black Canadians to graduate from McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine. He became a widely recognized expert in...
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