Welcome to Season 4, episode 20 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 Adrienne Johnson  where she shares with us what she knows about her family’s history, her traumatizing interaction with Montreal police, and gives us a history lesson about the migration of Black peoples to Quebec.

Welcome to Season 4, episode 19 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. In this, Part 2 of our conversation, Issac shares how being a part of both Black and Indigenous Cultures is tough but also a blessing. how much he loves his momma, his time at Brickworks, and how important it is for all of us to take care of this planet we call home.

Welcome to Season 4 , episode 18 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 Isaac Crosby who is a Black/Ojibwa agricultural expert with a passion for teaching and sharing his knowledge of Indigenous food systems. Isaac is a member  of a large family from the Ojibwas of Anderdon, a pre-confederation band of mixed Black/Indigenous people living near Windsor, ON.

Welcome to Season 4, episode 17 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 Michelle J Buckle where she talks about learning or not learning about Black History in Alberta, the conversations she has with her sisters about what their mother and grandmothers might have gone through, and how Afro Caribbeans arrive in Canada not knowing about the long history of Black folks in Canada.

Welcome to Season 4, episode 16 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 Michelle J Buckle. Michelle shares the journey of her family from Jamaica to England to Canada. Michelle also shares how much of her culture, language,  and self she has lost because of the racism her family encountered and how she is reclaiming that. Michelle says there were many who supported her along the way, including some teachers who she still has fonds memories of. 

Welcome to Season 4 episode 15 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. In this episode you will meet Karen Toliver-Springer. Karen is the 6th generation of her family  in Hamilton. Karen has a rich Canadian history and on her mother’s side, it starts with John Slaughter who in 1781 in Halifax, NS was given his freedom papers by his British slave owner. 

Welcome to Season 4 episode 14 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. In this, Part 2 of our conversation, Michael Jarvis, who was born in Montreal, talks about Sam Langford, navigating blackness, more about his Uncle Bub, Angela James, and the importance of getting Black stories told.

Welcome to Season 4 episode 13 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. In this, Part 1 of our conversation, Michael, who was born in Montreal, talks about the many facets of his family and how they came to find themselves in Nova Scotia. He shares about his mixed race Great, Great Grandfather Deacon William Barton who served in WW1 and "passed". Among other things, Michael also talks about "Driving Down Home" every summer for clams and chips, dulse, gooseberries, and good "baloney".

Welcome to Season 4 episode 12 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. I told Pearl Lawrence that her family is the poster family for Black Canadian history. Her story stretches from across the United States to Oklahoma to Campsie Alberta and from India to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick with Hogan's Alley in Vancouver, BC thrown in as well.

Welcome to Season 4 episode 11  of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. I had a great time talking with Kimble Sherwood in the Nelson Mandela room at the Union Untied Church in Montreal, Quebec. Kimble talks about growing up in Little Burgundy in Montreal, his love of music that was encouraged by his mother, and how the Negro Community Centre helped keep him, his siblings, and other Black children off the street and occupied.