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05.02.2012
The William Still Story on PBS |
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21.02.2011
A BLACK HISTORY MOMENT |
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07.02.2011
OBHS Black International Film Festival (BIFF) |
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30.01.2011
Wilma Morrison to receive Order of Ontario |
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24.12.2010
Ban calls for final end to racism |
10 December 2010 – As the United Nations system gears up to celebrate 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivered an impassioned plea today to the world community to eradicate racism once and for all.
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24.12.2010
Hockey coach's suspension lifted |
An Ontario minor hockey coach who was suspended after a racial slur prompted him to pull his team from the ice said Monday that the Ontario Minor Hockey Association has rescinded the suspension.
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24.11.2010
OBHS Annual Kick-off 2011 Brunch |
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23.11.2010
Sponsorship Opportunities Available for Black History Month |
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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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