Posted: Jan 31, 2021 7:00 AM MT | Last Updated: January 31
Sarah Adomako-Ansah and Andrew Parker are the co-founders of the Black Teachers Association of Alberta. (FO Photography)
What started as discussion between two people after an anti-racism rally in Edmonton this summer has blossomed into the 50-member Black Teachers Association of Alberta.
Edmonton educator and basketball player Andrew Parker was one of the speakers at the June 5 rally and his stirring address that day at the Alberta Legislature got a lot of play on social media and he recalls thinking, This can t be the end of it.
Parker called the one other Black teacher he knew, Sarah Adomako-Ansah, to bounce around some ideas and asked, What can we do as educators to change society?