Black History Month 2016 – BC Black History Awareness Society

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Vibes & Verses

Vibes & Verses stimulated your senses through the flow of jazz, the movements of afro-beats, the bounce of reggae, and the sways […]

1914: Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

Founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914, UNIA was part of a global movement to unite, empower, and improve the lives of people […]

Portrait. Black male age 50, dressed semi-formally wearing jacket, vest, winged-collar white shirt with a striped pattern bow-tie

August 30, 1907: Judge Mifflin Gibbs visits Victoria

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was a prominent citizen of Victoria, serving as a councillor and co-owned the retail firm of Lester & Gibbs, […]

Verna Gibbs, grandniece of Mifflin Wistar Gibbs steps into the Mifflin Wistar Gibbs Study Room

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs Community Room opens

This community room was opened at the newly built Greater Victoria Public Library sxʷeŋxʷəŋ təŋəxʷ (James Bay) Branch. Dr. Verna Gibbs, great-great […]