In connection with Juneteenth, Deborah Dobbins, founder of the Shiloh Centre for Multicultural Roots, is getting set to debut a new documentary entitled 'Alberta: Growing Up Black.'
Author of the article: Fish Griwkowsky
Publishing date: Feb 26, 2021 • February 26, 2021 • 2 minute read • Braxton Garneau s Tijs(Diptych), screenshot/oil on canvas. Photo by Braxton Garneau /supplied
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Pandemic painting: Braxton Garneau’s latest series of paintings, he tells the city-supported “art from here” project, is not a body of work.
“This is a collection of creative exercises; a response to a series of moments than have given me peace over the past several months. I needed to do something that was disconnected from the responsibilities of my regular practice. I needed to do anything other than obsess over the ever-growing list of racial injustices or confront my anxieties around the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Posted: Feb 12, 2021 5:00 AM MT | Last Updated: February 12
Deborah Dobbins s mother, Mae, sits in front of the homestead house where she grew up in Wildwood, Alta., west of Edmonton. Wildwood was the province s first established Black community.(Submitted by Deborah Dobbins)
February is Black History Month. To mark it, The Road Ahead has asked several Black Albertans to share their personal stories and their hopes for the future of this province
. Our series starts today with this column by cultural and special education consultant Deborah Dobbins.
For African American Albertans, prejudice, discrimination and marginalization began when we stepped across the border in the early 1900s and it has not gone away.