MONTREAL Canadian Black history should be taught and celebrated year-round, not just in February, activists and scholars say. Sharing Black history shouldn’t be limited to the 28 days of the month in February and should be a permanent part of school curriculums said Akilah Newton, Montreal author and activist. “The Black experience is year-round, we’re not just Black for one month,” Newton said. “This is our life. Our stories need to be shared 365 days a year, just as the white experience is.” In January, Newton released her new children’s book ‘Movers, Shakers, History Makers: The Canadian Black History Book of Rhymes’, which features dozens of prominent Black Canadians throughout history.
Producer, History Makers organizer Bill Nemtin passes away Bill Nemtin, filmmaker and executive producer of Achilles Media’s History Makers conference, has passed away at the age of 77.
As an award-winning documentary producer, Nemtin’s career first took flight at . January 13, 2021
Bill Nemtin, filmmaker and executive producer of Achilles Media’s History Makers conference, has passed away at the age of 77.
As an award-winning documentary producer, Nemtin’s career first took flight at the National Film Board of Canada, where he began as a coordinator of its Challenge for Change program in the late 1960s. The program gave communities access to film and video to promote social change and featured nine films directed by IMAX co-founder and Canadian documentarian Colin Low.
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Historian, Chester C. Owens, Jr., joins local filmmaker and historian, Rochelle Donald, on historic Quindaro, Kansas, and other historic sites in Kansas City, Kansas.
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riot, in the West African tradition. Mr. Owens is a Sumner High School (Kansas City, KS) alumnus who actively collects articles and artifacts pertaining to African American history. He has donated items to help establish the Sumner High School Alumni Room, which is named in his honor.