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Documentaries featuring Black stories will be shown all day at Richmond Public Library for two weekends in February.

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1 of 4 We are surrounded by borders. Not just the lines that separate states and nations, but the invisible delineations we draw between ourselves and others, and between our imaginations and the sharp corners of reality. These margins were the inspiration for “Borders,” the spring film discussion series presented by UC Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center (CWC).  “As with all of our series, we hope to expand our audiences’ understanding of borders in film and media,” said Patri...

February 24th, 2021 comments From the journey of a Haitian artist and activist who settled in Quebec to a Black cowboy and rancher in Alberta to a group of Canadians who took racism to court, watch National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries that amplify inspiring voices and stories that aren’t heard enough, during Black History Month.  The National Film Board of Canada is a federal cultural agency within the Canadian Heritage Department. Its mission is to...

An Emotional Documentary About Canada’s Legendary Black Cowboy Is Streaming Free Now One of many formerly enslaved Black people who left the U.S. to make the Prairies home, John Ware was one of Albertas most influential cattle ranchers at the turn of the 19th century. Laila El Mugammar Updated Rodeo champion Fred Whitfield as John Ware. (Photo: Shaun Robinson) The early settlements of Western Canada I constructed in my imagination have always been white. In history textbooks...

Saint John, NB, Canada / The Wave Feb 7, 2021 9:56 AM Saint John Newcomers Centres first Black History month screening, Kenbe la, jusquà la victoire (Kenbe La, Until We Win) (submitted) The Saint John Newcomers Centre hosted its first viewing party of films celebrating black culture on Zoom in honor of Black History Month on Friday. The films will be streamed every Friday throughout February and alternate between in French and English-language audio, with respective subtitles, in support of th...