[caption id="attachment_111" align="alignleft" width="300"] Judy Sims and her mother Nadine Sims by Starks Monument[/caption] Sylvia Stark was born enslaved, in Clay County, Missouri, USA in 1839, the daughter of Howard and Hannah Estes. Her father was owned by a different person than the rest of the...
Michaëlle Jean, (born September 6, 1957, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is the current Governor General of Canada. Jean was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Paul Martin, to succeed Adrienne Clarkson and become the 27th governor general of Canada since Confederation...
17 January 1927 - December 25, 2008 I met Earth Kitt in person in Calgary in 1985, while I was performing. I was told she was in town and I went see her show. She noticed me sitting in the audience. After her performance she requested...
I was not looking for “Lotus land” when eight years ago we retired from the lively endless adventures of being international civil servants to the calm enhancement of Vancouver Island. But under the calmness and evergreen serenity we discovered an almost insurmountable mountain of ‘status...
Dr. Maya Angelou is a remarkable Renaissance woman who is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature. As a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director, she continues to travel the world, spreading her legendary wisdom. Within the rhythm...
Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Obama, Sr., a Black Kenyan of Nyang’oma Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, a White American from Wichita, Kansas. His parents met while attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa. After his parent’s divorce,...
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...
The Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, impacted urban centers throughout the United States. Across the cultural spectrum (literature, drama, music, visual art, dance) and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy), artists and intellectuals found new ways to explore the historical...
The arrival of blacks in Canada is a very interesting topic. In 1606 Mattieu DaCosta, a translator for a European ship named Jonas was first black man that was recorded in Canada’s history(he was from Portugal). His job was to translate the language of the...
