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08.08.2010
Emancipation Day marked at Queen’s Park |
It marks John Graves Simcoe’s greatest accomplishment.
Not the civic holiday Monday that honours the first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, now known as Ontario — but Emancipation Day, which will be celebrated Sunday for only the second time.
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08.08.2010
Over 5,000 Attend Festival Kompa Zouk |
Over 5,000 people attended the first annual Festival Kompa Zouk, a festival
celebrating the French Caribbean culture at Metro Hall Square on Sunday
August 1st. which started at 1:00 p.m. and ended at 10:00 p.m. |
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02.05.2010
Little Known Black History Fact: Old Jack |
In 1927, a white banker in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ordered the construction of a statue that was said to honor the contribution of black men to society. Bryan hired sculptor Hans Schuler of Baltimore to create the piece for $4,300. The structure would be unveiled in the city of Natchitoches. Once revealed, the crowd saw the inscription that said “Erected by the city of Natchitoches in grateful recognition of the arduous and faithful services of the good darkies of Louisiana.” The statue was the first known statue of a black man in the United States.
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02.05.2010
Little Known Black History Fact: The Story of Captain H. Ford Douglas |
Though his father was a slave master and his mother was a slave, Hezekiah Ford Douglas was a man without fear. He escaped slavery at age 15, only to build a life as an open anti-slavery activist and Captain of an all-black regiment in the civil war.
After he escaped in Virginia, H. Ford Douglas moved to an all black town in Cleveland, OH. Though he made a living as a barber, people of his town knew him as one of the best oratorical masters, specializing in the perils of slavery and encouraging blacks to fight for their freedom. His main argument was that blacks enable slavery by staying in the United States; they should emigrate back to Africa or someplace without open slavery. Douglas was often criticized, even by blacks for speaking against the Republican party and it’s motives. One of his targets included Abraham Lincoln, who he says, occupied the same position that the old Whig party occupied in 1852. |
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27.04.2010
Honour black heroes: trustee |
By TOM GODFREY, Toronto Sun
Famous Canadians like jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and baseball Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins may soon have their stories carved in stone if a Black History Walk of Fame gets rolled out in Toronto.
Catholic School Board Trustee Rob Davis is pushing for a granite walkway, similar to the walks of fame in Hollywood and Toronto, to be located in the “Little Jamaica” area on Eglinton Ave. W., near Oakwood Ave.
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11.04.2010
PROF VERENE SHEPHERD APPOINTED TO UN GROUP |
PROFESSOR Verene Shepherd, who heads the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of the West Indies, Mona, has been appointed a member of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, the foreign ministry announced yesterday.
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08.04.2010
O'Ree receives Order of Canada |
| Willie O'Ree, the first black player in NHL history and the longtime Director of Youth Hockey Development for NHL Diversity and the Hockey Is For Everyone Initiative, received the Order of Canada in an investiture ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Wednesday morning. |
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02.04.2010
World pledges billions for Haiti's recovery |
Press Trust Of India
United Nations, April 01, 2010
Nearly $10 billion has been pledged in the Haiti Donor Conference to put the quake-hit nation back on its feet.
The conference, hosted by the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon along with his special envoy for Haiti, Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, received pledges worth billions of dollars for building back the Caribbean nation.
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02.04.2010
Haiti’s Founding Document Found in London |
By DAMIEN CAVE
New York Times
March 31, 2010
There is no prouder moment in Haiti’s history than Jan. 1, 1804, when a band of statesmen-warriors declared independence from France, casting off colonialism and slavery to become the world’s first black republic.
They proclaimed their freedom boldly — “we must live independent or die,” they wrote — but for decades, Haiti lacked its own official copy of those words. Its Declaration of Independence existed only in handwritten duplicate or in newspapers. Until now. |
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19.03.2010
Nat'l Society of Black Engineers to convene in Toronto |
| ALEXANDRIA, VA, Mar 18, 2010 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) ----The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) will hold its 36th Annual Convention March 31 through April 4 in Toronto, Canada, marking the first international convention in the Society's 35-year history. |
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18.03.2010
Haitian Parents Recover Children |
Joyful Haitian parents have recovered the children that they gave to American missionaries about six weeks ago.
The 33 children had been living at the SOS Orphanage on Port-au-Prince's outskirts since police stopped a group of 10 US Baptist missionaries from taking them across the Dominican border on January 29, following Haiti's devastating earthquake.
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04.03.2010
Speaker talks about black history |
Speaker talks about black history
By David Anderson
Hilary Dawson, a genealogist and historical researcher, was at the Schomberg Public Library recently to talk to members of Lloydtown Rebellion Association regarding black history in Ontario.
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04.03.2010
Africville trust gets financial boost |
Africville trust gets financial boost
By DAN ARSENAULT Staff Reporter
A plan to create a memorial project on the grounds of the former black community of Africville got a financial shot in the arm Sunday.
Ottawa gave organizers $250,000 to create the Africville Heritage Trust, which is poised to plan, build and run a church, museum and interpretive centre in Seaview Memorial Park in Halifax.
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03.03.2010
Haiti recovery process should be used to solve long-term problems – Georgieva |
By The Sofia Echo Staff
The recovery process in Haiti should be used to create a sustainable business culture, attract investments and promote small business, while ensuring a culture of business instead of one of corruption, according to Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Co-operation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response.
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27.02.2010
Underground Railroad conference kicks off today |
| TROY — Local historians will join students, teachers, scholars and others this weekend for a look into the Underground Railroad and the area’s role in the abolition movement as the Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region brings its ninth annual conference to Russell Sage College. |
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