Welcome to episode 14 of season 5 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. This is part 1 of my conversation with Jane Braithwaite who lives in Peterborough, ON. Jane's ancestors. have connection to Barbados, Sydney, NS and Milton ON which is a small hamlet west of Toronto. So many fascinating stories including that her grandmother was the first African Canadian visiting home maker in Toronto.

Welcome to episode 13 of season 5 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. In this episode, I talk with Calvin Lawrence  who was born in Yarmouth, NS. and grew up in Halifax. Calvin is a proud 7th generation African Nova Scotian who can trace his heritage to the Black Empire Loyalist. In 2019, along with journalist and activist Miles Howe, Calvin authored a Book “Black Cop”  which chronicles his trails and tribulations of being in law enforcement.

Welcome to episode 12 of season 5 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. In this episode I continue my conversation with Jennifer Dow as she shares her connection to and her travelling exhibition about the #2 Construction Battalion. Jennifer also discusses her text - Beyond Borders: Black Heritage in New Brunswick which is an  educational resource covering over 400 years of Black history in the province.

Welcome to season 5 episode 11 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. In ths epidode you wll meet Jennifer Dow who was born in 1986 in Fredericton, NB and is a proud sixth generation African New Brunswicker. She can traced her heritage to the Black Loyalists who arrived in 1783 and served as part of the British military during the American Revolutionary War.

Welcome to season 5 episode 10 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. In ths epidode you wll meet Clara Clayton Gough who was born in in Cherry Brook, Nova Scotia. Mrs Gough grew up in East Preston. Her ancestors came from Sierra Leone and brought the ribbed basket weaving tradition to NS. 

Clara is joined on the conversation with her granddaughter Tracy who is hoping to carry on the basket weaving tradition that Clara learned from her own grandmother.

Welcome to episode 9 of season 5 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. This is Part 2 of my conversation with Judy Williams Graham.

In this episode, Judy shares stories of her mom working at the post office in the 1960s, going to celebrations of the Sleeping Car Porters Union with her dad, the Risbys - Aunt Edith and Uncle Andrew and so much more.

Welcome to episode 8 of season 5 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. This is Part 1 of my conversation with Judy Williams Graham who was born in Edmonton, Alberta but grew up in Calgary and Vancouver.

Judy is a descendant of families that came to Canada during the Great Migration from the southern United States between 1900 and 1912. 

Welcome to episode 7 of season 5 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. This is Part 2 of my conversation with Sheila White.

Sheila and I continue our conversations including about the book she has written, “The Letters: Postmark Prejudice in Black and White”, about her Nova Scotian parents’ interracial marriage in Toronto in 1947.

Welcome to episode 6 of season 5 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. This is Part 1 of my conversation with Sheila White who was born in Ontario but has deep Nova Scotia roots.

In this episode Sheila shares her fascinating history from both her maternal and paternal sides of er family. Sheila also shares stories of her amazingly talented and accomplished relatives - (i.e. politicians, writes, artists) and how music has and continues to play an important part in her and her family's life.

Welcome to episode 5 of season 5 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. This is the continuation of my conversation with David Grant who currently lives in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.

In this episode, David shares what he knows about the history of Black people in Nunavut and surrounding areas. He also talks about the importance of looking at their full experience when considering mental health treatments and healing for Black folks.