PhoenixSerenity · @msquebanh
1358 followers · 13657 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.orgThis #InternationalDayForTheEliminationOfRacialDiscrimination - #BlackLifeImpactFoundation revealed the major components & partners of its #GroundBreaking #education & #impact campaign. The #campaign is designed to deepen #public #understanding of #Canada ’s #Black #history and is a companion to the #CBC #documentary series #BlackLife : #UntoldStories
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PhoenixSerenity · @msquebanh
1321 followers · 12953 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.orgAn Island-based #artist is hoping his new #exhibit will prompt #art lovers to look at life differently.
Niyi Adeogun's latest exhibit #features #portraits of #Black people mixed with #nature scenes.
The artist, who moved to #PrinceEdwardIsland from #Nigeria in 2016, said the pieces in his new exhibit show #BlackPeople in a scene where their #value and #beauty are #CentreStage .
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6782936
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Canadian History Ehx · @canadaehx
2796 followers · 1322 posts · Server canada.masto.host
Today in 1984, Anne C. Cools becomes the first Black Canadian appointed to the Senate of Canada.
Prior to the Senate, she founded one of the first domestic violence shelters in Canada.
Upon her retirement in 2018, she was the longest serving member of the Senate of Canada.
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Canadian History Ehx · @canadaehx
2791 followers · 1309 posts · Server canada.masto.hostRanking the 250 Greatest Canadians: 177 - Mary Ann Shadd
Coming to Canada in 1850 with her family, Shadd advocated for Black education & settlements. She founded the Provincial Freeman, and helped runaway slaves who arrived in Canada.
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PhoenixSerenity · @msquebanh
631 followers · 2921 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org
The #parents said they've never been contacted by anyone from the #IIU & only learned about the unit's decision to #decline to #investigate when they were contacted by the #CBC .
A #WinnipegPolice Service #spokesperson said in an email to CBC Friday morning that both a #police service inspector and staff sergeant met with the family the day the boy was bitten.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/wps-k9-child-attack-parents-1.6696270
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Canadian History Ehx · @canadaehx
1123 followers · 302 posts · Server canada.masto.hostRanking the top 250 Greatest Canadians: 198 - George Elliott Clarke
One of Canada's greatest poets, Clarke has served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto and Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate. His poetry centres on the experience of Black Canadians
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