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St. FX event brings together Black students to talk about university experience
The university held its first ever Dr. Agnes Calliste Black Student Voices Circle on Thursday evening for African Heritage Month.
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Posted: Feb 11, 2021 10:02 PM AT | Last Updated: February 12
Tara Reddick chaired St. Francis Xavier University s first Dr. Agnes Calliste Black Student Voices Circle.(Tara Reddick)
It s an especially turbulent time to be a Black student at university, says St. Francis Xavier sociology student Tara Reddick.
It s why she chaired a virtual discussion Thursday night with the intent of bringing together Black students to talk about their post-secondary experiences and the systemic and overt racism they face.
GUELPH An associate professor at the University of Guelph has created a website recognizing the contributions of Black Canadians. Black heritage has a rich and deep history in Canada, including contributions made in Guelph and Wellington County. Dr. Jade Ferguson, an associate professor at the University of Guelph, has dedicated much of her work over the past decade to getting to know the Black community that laid its roots down in the 1800s. “These stories are amazing, they’re inspiring and they speak to all that we need to do in terms of celebrating black achievement in Canada,” said Ferguson.
An Emotional Documentary About Canada’s Legendary Black Cowboy Is Streaming Free Now
One of many formerly enslaved Black people who left the U.S. to make the Prairies home, John Ware was one of Alberta s most influential cattle ranchers at the turn of the 19th century. Laila El Mugammar Updated
Rodeo champion Fred Whitfield as John Ware. (Photo: Shaun Robinson)
The early settlements of Western Canada I constructed in my imagination have always been white. In history textbooks, the pioneers cattle ranching and churning butter were always illustrated as white people, homesteading a vast, seemingly endless expanse of violently emptied frontier land. I had an idea of why that might be: two years ago, at the Halifax branch of Library and Archives Canada, I examined a letter from an African-American sharecropper to a white minister. Expressing that he was no longer interested in settling in Western Canada, the sharecropper thanked the minister for alerting him that
Why Black artists should spend 2021 forging our own paths â not trying to fix broken institutions Our collective protests have created a chasm, one we can fill with Black art, new ideas, and our full selves, writes artist and activist Rodney Diverlus.
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Posted: Jan 15, 2021 3:00 PM ET | Last Updated: January 15
Rodney Diverlus.(Robin Pueyo)
Black Light is a column by Governor General Award-winning writer Amanda Parris that spotlights, champions and challenges art and popular culture that is created by Black people and/or centres Black people. While Amanda is away on maternity leave, a different writer will be featured in a guest edition of the column each month. This month s edition is a point-of-view essay by movement artist and Black Lives Matter â Canada co-founder Rodney Diverlus.