Black History Month Blowout at the Gordon Best Theatre
7:59 p.m.: I Show Up Shy, but on a mission. 9:30 p.m.: Official Kick Off I am introduced to Nikoiya Wile who is kind enough to help ease my initial …
Black History Month
Peterborough City Councillors Talk Black History Month
February is Black History Month. I had the opportunity to sit down with Peterborough’s two Black City Councillors, Kemi Akapo and Stephen Wright, to discuss Black History Month and to …
Interview: Don Soul, Student and Musician
T: What kind of pressure do you put on yourself as an artist? DS: A lot, a lot of pressure. I like to think of myself as kind of a …
The Role and Responsibility of White People in Black History Month
“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out that’s not progress. …
Photo Essay: Borderless:// Black Love and History
On Saturday February 16, Borderless Bound Records and Black Lives Matter Nogojiwanong-Peterborough hosted an event for Black History Month in Sadleir House’s dining hall. The event offered a change of …
What is Black?: A Reflection
Black History Month has dawned upon us yet again. Every February we are thrust into a month-long journey of discovering and rediscovering what ‘race’ is. The Trent African Caribbean Student …
TACSU Talks: What is Black?
Arthur attended last week’s Trent African & Caribbean Student Union event, TACSU Talks. It was titled What is Black? The speakers Suzanna Lam and Achol Moses’s inspiration for the topic …
Soul Food: a Black History Month inspired event at Catalinas
On Saturday February 25th, Catalinas in downtown Peterborough came alive with a special Black History Month-inspired event hosted by the Peterborough Slam Poetry Collective (PPSC). The event was aptly entitled …
Celebrating Black Arts: showcase & open mic at The Spill
February is the month of love, and not just because of its fourteenth day. All throughout the month of February, many people across Canada show love and celebration of Black …
How the Trent African Caribbean Student Union is celebrating Black Heritage Month
ebration to remember important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. Viola Desmond, a prominent black Nova Scotian businesswoman who changed the course of Canadian history by defiantly …