Entries from SCHEMA Magazine - Daily Dose tagged as 'Black History Month'
2010 Winter Games | Bobsledder part of Canadian history
This is long overdue, but I thought that I'd wait until all the buzz about the 2010 Winter Games had subsided. During these Olympics something historic took place, bobsledder Shelley-Ann Brown became one of the first black Canadian women to win a medal at a Winter Games (possibly the first?).
"This Band Was Punk Before Punk Was Punk" | Death | African-American rock-punk
Cool article from the New York Times: "This Band Was Punk Before Punk Was Punk" . Call it Death, resurrected. The re-release of a record by Drag City Records deemed "for the whole world to see" from a mid-1970s...
Is Black History Month obsolete?
As Black History Month comes to an end, the recognition of the historic contributions of black Americans and Canadians shouldn't stop. In fact, if the acknowledgment of "black history" or Asian heritage were limited to February and May, respectively, the...
Black Women in Science-Fiction | Where are they?
According to science-fiction television, black women remain a visible minority. Despite the dominant visibility of African American women on American television today, according to sci-fi know-it-all Richard Whettestone's firsttvdrama.com, as of 2005 only 15 science-fiction television series have featured...
15 of the Greatest Black Superheroes of All Time | Bam! Kapow! Heroes, Villains And Everything In Between.
In the spirit of Black History Month, see Bam Kapow's fantastical post 15 of the Greatest Black Superheroes of All Time. Comics were the one of the first places that black characters were cast as lead figures in the American...
February is Black History Month | 2009
Black History Month is significant to everyone who considers themselves a part of today's diversity. As I said in the post, Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama (February 2007), "Before feminism, multiculturalism and the Asian American movement ever influenced our current...
Funk | perhaps the most ethnically cool thing evah
From our ARCHIVES: "A colored is a very frightened-to-death Afro-American. A Negro is one that makes it in the system, and he wants to be white. A nigger, he's loud and boisterous, wants to be seen. Nobody likes a nigger....
Black History in Toronto Schools | Remember Fresh Prince of Bel Air?
Black history in Canadian high schools has become a hot topic. The Toronto District School Board has made the plans to pilot alternative schools whose curriculum is focused on black history. "Those who support the idea say an alternative school...
The Untold Stories of Canadian Soul
You know we got soul! Light in the Attic's Jamaica to Toronto: Soul, Funk & Reggae 1967-1974 compilation series (left pic: Lloyd Delpratt, one of the featured musicians)...
Afro-Asian | Blasian : hapa collaboration
Often referenced by activists and intellectuals including W.E.B DuBois, Malcolm X, Yuri Kochiyama and Vijay Prashad, the 1955 Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia brought together 29 African and Asian nations. Bandung still survives in everyday lives...collaborations, political activism, and...
Remembering Hogan Alley and the Black Urban Landscape
On Saturday February 24th, 2007, special guest speakers David Hilliard and Dr. Afua Cooper will be at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre where they will be discussing the topic of black urban sites in different North American contexts and...
MISSISSIPPI COLD CASE - CDN Documentary delivers justice
World Premiere (34-minute version) on CBC News: Sunday, February 11, 2007 at 10 pm on CBC-TV and 9 pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld | Repeating Sunday February 18 at 8 pm ET on CBC Newsworld It is a 43-year-old murder...
Original Gangsta, 1895
Ice-T may have referred to himself as hip hop's O.G. but Cecil Brown's "I, Stagolee" may best tell the story of the history of the African American gangster, pimp, and political playa figure. This followed "Stagolee Shot Billy," a...
BLACK HISTORY MONTH - Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama
Before feminism, multiculturalism and the Asian American movement ever influenced our current experience as cultural navigators, there was the resistance, courage and voice of Black Americans and Canadians - in their fight against racism and pursuit for equality and social...
"Negritude 2.0: Standing in the Shadows of Dreamgirls"
Again, its hard to imagine but there was a time when black music and pop music were not synonomous. Like rock music before rap, black music was race music, was n*gg*r music, was the work of devils. But Jamie...
Funk - perhaps the most ethnically cool thing eva
"A colored is a very frightened-to-death Afro-American. A Negro is one that makes it in the system, and he wants to be white. A nigger, he's loud and boisterous, wants to be seen. Nobody likes a nigger. A black...
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