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Connecting the dots between Haiti's revolutionary past and Toronto's Simcoe Day

Connecting the dots between Haiti’s revolutionary past and Toronto’s Simcoe Day

In Ontario, the first Monday in August is Simcoe Day, a civic holiday named after John Graves Simcoe — Upper Canada’s first lieutenant governor. Simcoe is well-known for passing an anti-slavery law that set the stage for the abolition of slavery in Canada. But he also shares a historical connection with Haiti. John Graves Simcoe found himself in Haiti (called Saint-Domingue back then) in January…

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The intrepid Michaëlle Jean, Canada's first black governor general

The intrepid Michaëlle Jean, Canada’s first black governor general

  Michaëlle Jean reinvented the image of  a Canadian Governor-General. During her tenure, she represented a contemporary image of  Haitians and Canadians alike – poised, rooted , accomplished and deeply personable. A trailblazing figure in many respects, Michaëlle Jean is a philanthropist, activist and award-winning journalist. As she so aptly put it in her installation speech, “The time of the…

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Haitian Doctor was Canada's First Black Mayor

Haitian Doctor was Canada’s First Black Mayor

Dr. Saint-Firmin Monestime was a Haitian medical doctor who became Canada’s first elected black mayor of a Canadian municipality. Not bad for a man who arrived in Canada with only a dollar in his pocket. Contributions to Haitian Society Born in 1909 in Cap-Haïtien, Saint-Firmin Monestime was a doctor by trade who specialized in rural medicine. He wrote several books on the subject, and advocated…

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Haitian man is the founder of the City of Chicago

Haitian man is the founder of the City of Chicago

Haiti’s ties to U.S. history goes back a long way. For example, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a black man born in Haiti (known back then as Saint-Domingue) is the earliest settler of what is now the city of Chicago – the original occupants being the Indigenous peoples who lived in the area before the arrival of Europeans. Various Chicago sites have been named in Point du Sable’s honour to…

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Lakou Mizik woo crowd with roots and rara rhythms

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New Children’s Book About Haitian Revolution Earlier this year, Haitian-American author Frantz Derenoncourt, Jr. published Haiti: The First Black Republic, …

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Comment réconcilier la nostalgie qu’on ressent pour le pays de nos parents et notre vie quotidienne en amérique du nord.

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it's about time!

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sometimes it seems like worlds colliding. this image is for women of colour who confront mainstream society. it’s for those women who are advocating for their rights in a society that does not want to acknowledge their unique experience in racialized, gendered, classist world.

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Yass! #repost @princexroyal

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“Don’t follow the path. Go where there is no path and start a trail.” -Ruby Bridges

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I want to honor the memory of the great civil rights activist Julian Bond, who died yesterday at the age of 75. As he often noted, Mr. Bond was from several generations of college graduates (his father, Horace Mann Bond, was the first Black president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania) but spent the bulk of his life reaching out to help others gain equality in education and civil rights. I gratefully acknowledge the decades of fearless service and leadership of Julian Bond and extend my condolences to his wife Pamela and his family. This photo of Mr. Bond with members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (he was a co-founder) was taken by the legendary photographer Richard Avedon on March 23, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Video in response to the CBC article about various quebec sites that still have nigger/nègre as part of their names.

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Cut Paper Print- Fashion Figures with Colorful Prints

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