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CBC’s The Porter will be Canada’s biggest Black-led TV series A series about porters and Black-Canadian history set in Montreal s Little Burgundy is coming to CBC and BET+ By Radheyan Simonpillai Dec 10, 2020 Charles Officer, Marsha Greene, Annemarie Morais and R.T. Thorne are the creative forces behind The Porter. A CBC series about Black porters and Montreal’s jazz hub Little Burgundy community is set to become Canada’s biggest Black-led television production. The eight-part series digging into Black Canadian history will go into production in 2021 under the working title The Porter. The period piece takes place after the First World War in Little Burgundy, which was dubbed “Harlem of the North.” It follows two former soldiers who find work as railway porters, which was one of the few jobs available to Black men at the time. They worked long hours and endured abusive treatment for scant pay. That led to a civil rights fight across Canada and the U.S., a

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