Black Mental Health Matters every day of the year, psychotherapist says
Does the annual observance of Black History Month have any impact on the mental health of the Black community?
Black History Month
Black Diamond Ball carries on virtually this year
Black Diamond Ball, annual fundraiser, celebrates Black History Month by supporting Black youth and Black-owned businesses.
Kuumba is hosted by Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre
The Harbourfront Centre is hosting Kuumba, a month-long celebration of Black History Month.
Singer notes Black history content in songs of the 1960s and ’70s
Rich Pearson learns more and more about the music he performs, especially this time of year.
When he recently sang Paul McCartney’s lyrics, “Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these sunken eyes and learn to see; all your life, you were only waiting for this moment to be free,” he realized the song wasn’t about birds at all.
“(McCartney) was thinking about the civil rights movement at that time he wrote it; he wrote it at the 68,” Pearson said.
Journalist says cultural competence bridges racial gaps
At first, the racial slur his former boss made about him didn’t bother him. It had been 17 years since Hamlin Grange had worked with him at the Toronto Star. That’s when another working colleague, John Miller, told him about the derogatory remark.
“My wife knew something (had) changed inside me,” Grange said. “She said I looked vulnerable, as if I’d lost something. … She was right.”
This was a defining moment in Grange’s career. He went on to report and anchor on Global TV and CBC TV, and eventually to co-create DiversiPro Inc., a company dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion.
Theorizing the future of Black History Month
When people of African descent are routinely included or affirmed through school curriculum, books and the media, there may no longer be a need for Black History Month, some black leaders say.
Celebrating black women in Canada
On Tuesday CTV’s Marci Ien hosted a night dedicated to some of the country’s most empowering black women.
World Champion hurdler Perdita Felicien visits Centennial College
Felicien, born and raised in Pickering, is a two-time former Olympic hurdler and was the first female Canadian athlete to win gold at the World Championship in Athletics in Paris in 2003.
Black History Month ‘should celebrate the present’
It may be time to update the focus of Black History Month, says Kyla Williams. Black History Month, celebrated each February, has traditionally had a strong emphasis on remembering and honouring the stories and people who struggled through slavery, segregation and the fight for civil rights.
Black History Month: For the Love of Food
For the Love of Food: an engaging discussion on ethnic health led by Liz E. Philbert, publisher of Healthy Knowledge Magazine.