I Am Black History (ITBC) - Our Stories, Our Voices

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 Am...

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 he...

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 an...

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 19...

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 t...

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 looki...

Welcome to episode 4 of season 5 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by  InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC)  and  DeeP Visions Media. This is the first part of my conversation with David Grant who was born in Scarborough, Ontario. David’s Parent’s are both  from Jamaica with Nigerian, Congolese, Liberian, and Cuban ancestry. In this episode David talks about his ancestral background and what li...

Welcome to episode 3 of season 5 of 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 Marlene Jennings who was born in Longueuil, Quebec. In this segment Marlene talks about her experince of growing up Black in Longueuil, not learning anything about Black history in school, but coming to learn about the si...

Welcome to episode 2 of season 5 of 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 Marlene Jennings who was born in Longueuil, Quebec. Marlene has had an amazing career path including being an Honourable Member of Parliament - Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Lachine 1997-2011. Part 2 of our conversation will be out...

Welcome to Season 5 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlackCanada and DeeP Visions Media . As usual, I started this season off with a family member. June Parris was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia and has connections to Springhill Nova Scotia and to the Black Sheppards of Prince Edward Island. June's grandfather and mine were cousins and both are on Canada post&#...

Welcome to Season 4, episode 35 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by  InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC)  and  DeeP Visions Media. This is my conversation with LeRoy Williams who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Leroy spent his early years in Amber Valley, Alberta before moving to Edmonton. LeRoy's ancestors are part of the migration from southern states to the prairies in the ear...

Welcome to Season 4 episode 34 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by  InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC)  and  DeeP Visions Media. In this episode you will meet Misty Rae Johnson Parker who was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick on July 27th 1971 and grew up in Oromocto, NB. Misty  is the author of the best-selling novel, I Ran So You Could Fly : The Paris O'Ree Story which is based on the l...

Welcome to Season 4 episode 33 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by  InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC)  and  DeeP Visions Media. In this episode you will meet Brandy Fredrickson (nee Robinson) who was born in Drayton Valley AB. Brandy’s great, great grandparents Sam and Neoma (nee Atkins) Hooks moved with their four children from Sharpes, Oklahoma in 1911. This makes Brandy a fifth generatio...

Welcome to Season 4, episode 32 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 Matthew Byard who was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mathew shared his journey of learning about Black history and what inspired him to start BlackNSNews.

Welcome to Season 4, episode 31 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 Matthew Byard who was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Matthew's father, Paul Byard, was born in Truro and his mother, Cheryl Gibson grew up in Gibson Woods, a historical Black community in Kentville, NS.  Both sides of Matthew'...

Welcome to Season 4, episode 30 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by  InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC)  and  DeeP Visions Media. In this epsode, I met with Ralph Thomas who is Co-founder and Program Director of the New Brunswick Black History Society. Ralph shared with me some New Brunswick Black history, about learning how to get things done, and why it's important for us to know and docum...

Welcome back to Season 4 and episode 29 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 Myrna Wisdom where she shares stories about her Aunt Louella who ran the Chicken Fry restaurant in Calgary, how Black folks would leave the city to visit folks in Amber Valley as a way of maintaining those connecting...

Welcome to Season 4, and episode 28 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 Myrna Wisdom. Myrna talks about her folks coming to Canada from Oklahoma, crossing the border at Emerson, Manitoba and then having to travel the rest of the way to Amber Valley by wagon train. She also shares how Indigeno...

Welcome to Season 4 and episode 27 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by  InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC)  and  DeeP Visions Media. In this episode, Mathew Martin talks about growing up Black in New Brunswick as a mixed race child. He also shares about not learning much Black history in school and why he is so proud of the Black Lives Matter NB initiative that is a framework of resources fo...

Welcome to Season 4, episode 26 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by  InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC)  and  DeeP Visions Media. Thanks for joining me for Part 2 of my conversation with Debbie Hunte. Debbie shares how she was brought up to respect people but didn't always meet that respect when working in hospitals setting. She also talks about dealing with the death of both her parents and...

Welcome to Season 4, episode 25 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 Debbie Hunte who was born and raised in Montreal. Her parents and grandparents on both her maternal and paternal side, were all born in Barbados. Debbie’s mother came to Canada with 35 other women as part of Canada’s  Domesti...

Welcome to Season 4, episode 24 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 Cheryl Whalin where she shares stories of her Great Aunt Hattie and Hattie's Chicken Shack. Cheryl also talks about growing up in Edmonton and why it's so important to gather and share our family histories.

Welcome to Season 4, episode 23 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 Cheryl Whalin (nee Melton) who shares the amazing story of both sides of her family connected to the migration of Black people from Oklahoma, USA to Alberta, Canada. Cheryl shares details of where they travelled from and what...

Welcome to Season 4, episode 22 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by  InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC)  and  DeeP Visions Media. In this episode you will meet Lisa J. Weiss who was born in Trinidad and came to Canada with her family when she was 4 years old. Lisa does work that she says, "Helps people see that  their past does not define them."