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The federal government is providing funding for three museum exhibits focused on the historic culture of Northern Ontario.
The Department of Canadian Heritage will provide more than $55,000 each to the North Bay Area Museum Society, Temiskaming Art Gallery and Temagami First Nation.
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“I am happy to see these organizations in Nipissing-Timiskaming getting the assistance they need so that they can put together these important projects that will highlight historic people and events from our region,” Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Anthony Rota said in a statement provided by his constituency office.
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City Council Reaffirms, Declares Lee Jordan Day in Takoma Park
The Takoma Park City Council has reaffirmed and declared Tuesday, February 23 as Lee Jordan Day in the city.
“Lee A. Jordan was an iconic figure for Takoma Park, whose values and contributions still resonate in our community,” according to a press release.
The Oral Histories from the African American Community Project will present a program about Jordan’s life at 2 p.m. in the Takoma Park Community Center auditorium:
Lee Jordan was a legendary coach and mentor to a generation of Takoma Park youth – both black and white – through his work at Takoma Park Junior High School and was a founder of the Takoma Park Boys and Girls Club, the first integrated organization of its kind in Montgomery County. He was also a tireless advocate for the African American community in Takoma Park and led the campaign for the creation of the Hefner Community Center on Oswego Avenue. To commemorate Black History Month. the Oral His
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For a long time, the future was inconceivable for gay men. Even before the Aids pandemic, social stigma led to the pathologisation and criminalisation of the global community. Gay men lived in the shadows of society, maintaining their veneer of heteronormative stability by marrying straight women at great cost to themselves and their families.
This idea of hiding one’s identity might seem like a distant memory to today’s self-actualised youth. Still, we purposefully leave behind our forebears to carry their trauma alone. “Their sadness and shame” are the story Yeung wants to tell. He says, “We wouldn’t be where we are today without what these men have gone through. They need to be seen.”