This week, in honour of Black History Month, Sienna and Savannah teach each other something about Black history! Find all of our sources below, please go directly to these sources and more to do further learning, and when you are able send money to the Black people that are educating you online! 

Sienna’s Sources:

General Research: 

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-coloured-corps-african-canadians-and-the-war-of-1812

https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/culture/clmhc-hsmbc/res/information-backgrounder/richard-pierpoint

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/black-history-month/transcript-black-soldiers-fight-canada.html

Black History Month short interview with scholars:

https://www.tvo.org/video/bringing-overlooked-canadian-black-history-to-the-fore

This American Life - Talking While Black:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/758/talking-while-black

Docushort about a family’s black Canadian heritage: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCg1t3mdWwM&list=LL&index=2&t=633s

Savannah’s Sources:

28 Moments of Black Canadian History:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT9MbfNkf-UjoR-4wYeVWxiyxoIxQPlXF

theGrio: Video by Opiniated AF Danielle Young "AAVE is not Internet Culture":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_lyirTiedU&ab_channel=theGrio

So Much Modern Slang Is AAVE. Here’s How Language Appropriation Erases The Influence Of Black Culture - By Sydnee Thompson

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sydneethompson/aave-language-appropriation

Sydnee’s Article links this Source as well:

https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-oral-history-part-i-coming-together/

AAVE Explained: A Dialect That Transcends Internet Culture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnOLKqhx_Co&ab_channel=BabbelUSA

IT’S TIME TO STOP USING AAVE IF YOU’RE NOT BLACK - By Nina Doyle:

https://www.hercampus.com/school/bu/it-s-time-stop-using-aave-if-you-re-not-black/

The etiquette of whether to say ‘YAS QUEEN’ (Cicely-Belle Blain Quote):

https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/02/28/the-etiquette-of-when-to-say-yaas-queen.html#:~:text=The%20phrase%2C%20which%20is%20a,used%20by%20Black%20trans%20women.