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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. ....

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