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On stages across Ontario and Quebec, Black Canadian artists are expressing what freedom means to them through music, poetry, performance and dance. Free Up. is the annual youth-led celebration of Emancipation Day featuring music, theatre, spoken word, and dance, hosted by Ngozi Paul, featuring Jully Black and co-produced with CBC ARTS and Emancipation Arts. Since 2017, Paul and her production company Emancipation Arts have produced FreeUp. as an annual event to celebrate Emancipation Day, the day that slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire on August 1, 1834. This year marks the fi...

Dr. Winston Hackett was a pioneer in healthcare. He may have been born in Texas, but he is a part of Arizona's history. Dr. Hackett was the first African American doctor in the state.

The Black Theatre Troupe has been dazzling audiences since it was founded in the 1970s. It puts on musicals and plays throughout the year and the popular Black Nativity during the holidays.

Coming up on this Season 9 opener of Word, wanna get off this planet?A new sci-fi novel examines the implications of doing so and what it means for sustainability for those of us who choose to stay on it.Plus, it’s Black History Month.Why are representations of African American history lacking in Arizona?Finally, February also means National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo),

Meskerem Glegziabher, clinical assistant professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at ASU, speaks on the erasure of Black history in the Southwest and how dominant narratives produce and perpetuate marginalization and uphold structural inequality. More importantly, she highlights why it is so important for communities to recognize and rectify this privation.