Dorothy Williams

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The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) was a Black nationalist organization founded by Marcus Garvey. Garvey’s experiences with racial inequality propelled him to create the UNIA in Jamaica in 1914. The…

Article content Montreal’s Black history comes into particularly sharp focus in the documentary Little Burgundy, thanks to a host of community leaders sharing memories and offering enlightening insights. Article content The doc, airing Friday at 9…

Article content Archives, artifacts and traces of African descendants in Quebec and across Canada now have a place for their stories to live. Article content Quebec’s first Afro museum, Afromusée, launched Feb. 24 at the Espace Mushagalusa in…

Black Canadian communities continued to expand through migration despite racist measures implemented against them. Many communities were tied to the rail industry, as many Black Canadians worked as porters. Others worked in important sectors like…

Black people have lived in Canada since the beginnings of transatlantic settlement. Although historically very few arrived directly from their ancestral homeland in Africa, the term "African Canadian" is used to identify all descendants of Africa…

Article content In Montreal’s Little Burgundy neighbourhood, where the city’s English-speaking Black community is rooted, some locals are seeking to revive an institution that once served as a community hub. A citizens’ group hopes to be able to…

Dominique François Gaspard, physician and community builder (born 22 December 1884 in New Orleans, Louisiana; died 6 February 1938 in Montreal, QC). Gaspard was a respected doctor and a trailblazer in Montreal’s Black district. After serving with…

Article content Dorothy Williams isn’t the least bit surprised that there is once again a debate about the place of Black people in history books at Quebec schools. Williams, a Concordia University professor who has written two influential books on…

Article content Monday Montreal West Horticultural Society meets at 7:30 p.m. at Montreal West Town Hall, 50 Westminster Ave. S. Photographer and author Reggie D. Millette will speak on the Montreal Botanical Garden Through Four Seasons. Guest fee…

Article content Everyone has a story — a story with elements of grace and even joy, and also its share of disappointment and darkness. Our stories are seldom known to those outside our own circle and, in time, they are often forgotten. It might have…

Article content Seeing the Negro Community Centre today — its windows boarded-up and walls sagging — it’s hard to imagine it in its former glory. But Shirley Gyles remembers those years vividly. The president of the NCC, she had big hopes for the…

Article content On the eve of International Women’s Day, in alphabetical order, we recognize a sampling of women who have been making their mark in Quebec: Françoise Abanda, Dominique Anglade, Shaheen Ashraf, Doreen Assaad, Michèle Audette, Manon…

History The Slavery Abolition Act, which came into effect in 1834, abolished slavery throughout the British Empire, including British North America (see also Confederation; Black Loyalists in British North America). The Act made enslavement…

We may never know the exact number of British ships that carried enslaved people from the continent of Africa to the New World (see Black Enslavement in Canada). However, the earliest record of enslaved Black Africans in New France is the sale of a…

Article content When Gwen Lord applied to become a teacher with the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal in 1961, she was relieved the interviewer was someone she knew well, the father of a best friend. She hoped graduating top of her class…

Article content Much is being said this week about the 1969 student occupation of the computer centre at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) over racism, its underlying causes, and transnational or global consequences. But a few hundred…