Black History Month

Most recent stories in Black History Month

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  The Conversation Canada

  

  Black youth yearn for Black teachers to disrupt the daily silencing of their experiences

  The Conversation Canada - Olufunke Oba

  The annual Black History month school assemblies is fading away with February. The 2022 theme picked by the Canadian government for Black History …

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  The Conversation Canada

  

  How a Black writer in 19th-century America used humor to combat white supremacy

  theconversation.com - Rodney Taylor

  Any writer has to struggle with the dilemma of staying true to their vision or giving editors and readers what they want. A number of factors might …

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  The Conversation Canada

  

  In Mexico, how erasing Black history fuels anti-Black racism

  The Conversation Canada - Marycarmen Lara Villanueva

  In early 2021, a Ghanaian migrant known as Faruku died in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana, near the Mexico-United States border, of an apparent …

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  The Conversation Canada

  

  How American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson became a hero in China

  The Conversation Canada - Gao Yunxiang

  Chinese broadcasters have aired shows featuring Paul Robeson (1898-1976), one of the most popular African American singers and actors of his era and …

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  The Conversation Canada

  

  Making our food fairer: Don't Call Me Resilient EP 12

  The Conversation Canada - Vinita Srivastava

  One of the most exciting parts of my job is the way that folks are rolling up their sleeves and they’re getting onto the land and taking the …

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  The Conversation Canada

  

  Five plays about enslavement by Black British women playwrights

  The Conversation UK - Lynette Goddard

  “There’s a sidestep that Europe does where it takes itself out of the triangle … I’m never quite sure how that sleight of hand is achieved, but it’s …