Black History Month 2019 – BC Black History Awareness Society

Emery Barnes and Rosemary Brown are elected to the BC provincial legislature

On August 30th, 1972 Emery Barnes was elected as the first member in the double-member riding of Vancouver Centre, along with MLA […]

Judge Matthew Begbie rules against the Black miners of the Davis Company

In 1865 the Davis Company was formed through a merger of the all-Black Harvey-Dixon Company and the all-white Davis Company. The new […]

Speaker Paul Winn - The Black Experience in Canada

The Black Presence in Canada

Paul Winn is a Lawyer, Staff Liaison with the Multiculturalism Committee in the BC Law Society and Senior Staff at the Canadian […]

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“Call Mr. Robeson”

Performance by Nigerian-born Tayo Aluko, actor, singer and playwright, based in Liverpool, UK. Tayo Aluko IS Robeson. Paul Robeson was an international […]