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Florida Rejects Advanced Placement Course on African American Studies, Citing Lack of Opposing Viewpoints
In a recent development, Florida officials have come under scrutiny for rejecting a new Advanced Placement (AP) course on African American Studies. The...
Story of Black woman from Niagara who helped keep escaped slave free is included in new book
The extraordinary story of a Black man who escaped slavery in Kentucky by stealing his “owner’s” horse, and the Niagara woman who fought...
Canadians have a lot to learn about this country’s history of slavery, experts say
WARNING: This story contains disturbing details about slavery. As Sharon Robart-Johnson walks around the Black history room at the Yarmouth County Museum, she points...
El Jones’s powerful poem sheds light on slavery in N.S. and the struggle for freedom
On the shores of Halifax harbour, poet and educator El Jones performed a poem she wrote for Emancipation Day, which will be marked for...
Families of victims of police violence call for action at rally outside Trudeau’s office
A group of Black and Indigenous families brought their case for defunding Canadian police forces to the steps of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s...
Looking back to look forward: Resources exploring Black Prairie experiences
This story is part of the Black on the Prairies project, a collection of articles, personal essays, images and more, exploring the past,...
MPs set to vote on motion to recognize Emancipation Day across Canada
It was called “the greatest freedom show on earth.” From the Depression era until 1967, annual Emancipation Day celebrations on Aug. 1 drew big...
In vow to protect campus free speech, Quebec premier joins global ‘war on woke’
Quebec Premier François Legault has steered his government toward yet another divisive ideological debate by declaring his intention to move swiftly to protect campus free speech...
Hidden camera reveals ‘appalling’ conditions in overseas PPE factory supplying Canadian hospitals, expert says
The wall of noise is constant as the workers manually check, sort and pack a seemingly endless supply of disposable gloves into boxes...
The dark side: 2020 was a boom year for horror on-screen — and that’s no accident
The meaning behind Netflix’s The Platform is hard to miss: “an accidentally timely political allegory,” the New York Times called it, “a brutal...
What is Juneteenth and why is everybody talking about it this year?
It is a 155-year-old day of celebration that many non-Black people in the U.S. and around the world only started to hear of recently....
Breaking news: Hundreds of thousands of Africans were enslaved in America. Wanda Tucker believes her relatives were the first
LUANDA, Angola – Wanda Tucker stepped off the plane to a sky so gray it blended into the tarmac. She inhaled, balanced her...
Slave trade returns to UK?
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking (MSHT) in the United Kingdom is much more pervasive than was thought, the UK National Crime Agency (NCA)...
Slave trade returns to UK?
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking (MSHT) in the United Kingdom is much more pervasive than was thought, the UK National Crime Agency (NCA)...
