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Black Identity and the Great War: History from the Bottom Up
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To save Black Loyalist burial grounds from neglect, New Brunswickers dig into their segregated past
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SAINT JOHN, N.B. The stories of eight Black New Brunswickers who made historical impacts, both near and far, will be featured in an upcoming stage production called ‘We Were Here.’ “My goal is simply to allow Saint Johners to be proud of their history,” said playwright and director Clyde Wray. “The history was just buried, it’s there.” Wray has been preparing the production since he was named the Saint John Theatre Company’s artist-in-residence last fall. While the play has faced challenges from an evolving pandemic situation, a three-night virtual presentation has been scheduled for Feb. 25, 26, and 27.
Posted: Feb 07, 2021 8:00 AM AT | Last Updated: February 7
Saint John writer Anna Minerva Henderson, pictured with her graduating class of 1905 at Saint John High School. (Submitted by Saint John High School) comments Grey wharves that know the way of wind and tide, Dim, drifting fog, the sea-gull s plaintive cry, A city, old and assured, wearing the pride Of epic memories and heritage ….
Few poems have so perfectly captured the grit and dignity of Canada s oldest incorporated city.
These lines, titled
Saint John, N.B. become even more remarkable when you learn the author was a Black woman born in 1887.
Anna Minerva Henderson, the daughter of a schoolteacher and a barber, grew up to be an award-winning civil servant and literary pioneer. Black literary critic and Governor General s Award-winning author George Elliott Clarke describes her as the first Black woman in English in Canada to dare to publish a chapbook of verse.
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