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In connection with Juneteenth, Deborah Dobbins, founder of the Shiloh Centre for Multicultural Roots, is getting set to debut a new documentary entitled 'Alberta: Growing Up Black.'

On Monday, Rhiannon Hoyle was elected to the riding of Edmonton-South, making her the first Black woman elected to the Alberta Legislature.

Posted: Feb 28, 2021 8:00 AM MT | Last Updated: February 28 Ibrahim Odunayo Kassim poses with his wife Mayowa and their children. (Tope Akindele Photography) Black people are not a monolith. There are Black communities formed as a result of slavery, erased of their history and ethnic identity, Black diaspora from Africa, Caribbean and South America. Edmonton is home to a diverse range of Black communities, from the earliest African-Americans responsible for the firsts in the city to communities who came later but made this place their own. For Black History Month, Edmonton AM focused on four...

Author of the article: Fish Griwkowsky Publishing date: Feb 26, 2021  •  February 26, 2021  •  2 minute read  •  Braxton Garneau's Tijs(Diptych), screenshot/oil on canvas. Photo by Braxton Garneau /supplied Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content Pandemic painting: Braxton Garneau’s latest series of paintings, he tells the city-supported “art from here” project, is not a body of work. “This is a collection of creative exer...

Posted: Feb 12, 2021 5:00 AM MT | Last Updated: February 12 Deborah Dobbins's mother, Mae, sits in front of the homestead house where she grew up in Wildwood, Alta., west of Edmonton. Wildwood was the province's first established Black community.(Submitted by Deborah Dobbins) February is Black History Month. To mark it, The Road Ahead has asked several Black Albertans to share their personal stories and their hopes for the future of this province . Our series starts today with this column by cultural and special education consultant Deborah Dobbins. For African American Albertans, prejudice...