A new online exhibit aims to highlight the contributions and history of Black pioneers in BC.
The exhibit features 20 stories, nine videos, and 86 gallery items that include images, photographs, maps, and archival documents and focuses on a group of 800 invited settlers and how they contributed to the formation and development of society in BC.
Silvia Mangue Alene, president of the BCBHAS, tells Daily Hive this history is not currently part of the curriculum in BC schools.
“We, my organization, go around asking to present the history in schools. Sometimes we are welcome and sometimes we are not. We hope that the Ministry of Education will at least have this history as an option in high schools so that youth that want to learn this history can have the option,” explains Alene.