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Canadian schools devote time to Black history and the Black Canadian experience in February, but what happens the rest of the year? Many educators, historians, students and community members are working to make Black history part of everyday learning.
The Toronto educators behind the See Us Learn Us seminars are helping teachers and school administrators across Canada work out how to include more of the Black Canadian experience in their curricula.
A number of drives, GoFundMes, and donation centers have been established to help victims of the blaze that leveled over 1,000 homes 2 weeks ago.
Jacob Robinson didn’t have a single Black teacher in elementary school in Toronto and later in Brampton, and could count the number at his high school, St. Roch Catholic Secondary School, on one hand. But the third-year University of Waterloo student says he clearly remembers the junior high science teacher whose mistreatment of him and other Black students he now knows was racism. She would give and check homework every day. And one day, Robinson had finished his except for one question he did not understand and approached her before class to ask about it. She didn't want to talk then and ...