Junie’s debut book of poetry Eat Salt | Gaze at the Ocean (Talon Books, 2020) was short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her second collection allostatic load (Talon Books) came out in April 2025. Junie is a mentor for poets at SFU’s Writers’ Studio and...
In May 2023, after the close of the “Hope Meets Action: Echoes Through the Black Continuum” exhibit, BCBHAS and Royal BC Museum entered into a Memorandum of Understanding that established a framework for continuing community collaboration. On July 29, 2023, the...
In September 2022, the Hogan’s Alley Society signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Vancouver for a Community Land Trust to revitalize the Hogan’s Alley neighbourhood. “We honour the Black community that lived in Hogan’s Alley by celebrating the history...
Between February 2020 and March 2022, the African Ancestry Project, led by Alice Muthoni Mũrage in partnership with BC Black History Awareness Society, conducted research through a survey, interviews, and focus group discussions. The history, data and stories of over...
