September  2014 saw the success of the fifth annual Arte De Carnavale/Culture Days event in Nanaimo BC. Here are some highlights from that event. [caption id="attachment_272" align="aligncenter" width="401"] Shalema Gantt and models from Panache adorned in Arte De Carnavale costume.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_269" align="aligncenter" width="550"] 2014 Nanaimo Culture...

Black History Month, which began as Negro History Week, was founded in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson as a vehicle to "hand down information about Africans that had been altered, dismissed, or ignored," according to the NetNoir Web Site. Woodson graduated from Harvard, obtaining a...