Do people mail postcards anymore? Every February I go to Canada Post to purchase stamps issued for Black History Month. For 2016 it’s the No. 2 Construction Batallion who get the honours. […]
Black History Month – Buffalo Soldiers
Black History Month – African Nova Scotia
Did you know the UN named the time period of 2015-2024 the decade for people of African descent? I didn’t until I went onto the African Nova Scotian Affairs website. http://www.un.org/en/events/africandescentdecade/index.shtml http://ansa.novascotia.ca/african-heritage-month […]
And the answers are…
Milestone questions on Black History Month Who were Mathieu de Costa and Viola Desmond? Read the following posts, previously published, to find out: https://wealworldtravel.com/2014/02/19/black-history-month-a-da-costa-connection/ https://wealfood.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/meatless-monday-vegging-out-on-viola-desmond-day/
Black History Month – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
…The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. Poem […]
Black History Month – Closing Ceremonies
As the month of February comes to a close, Black History Month concludes for another year. From Lucy* in Ethiopia, to the displaced Nubians of Egypt, the Zulu in South Africa and […]
Black History Month – Africville, Nova Scotia
Home is where the heart is and their hearts were in Africville. Africville was a Halifax community from the 1840s until the 1960s. All that remains now is a park and some […]
Black History Month – Pah!
Did you know… sign language is not universal? Many countries have their own spoken language as well as their own signed language. In most English-speaking parts of Canada and the U.S. the […]
Black History Month – Fighting Fit
There is a cultural way to stay fit if you are travelling to Brazil; do Capoeira. Capoeira is a martial arts disguised as a dance and played as a game. It was […]
Black History Month – Country Profile: South Africa
“One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.” ~Plato~ On December 5th, 2013 the world lost charismatic freedom fighter and president […]
Black History Month and Meatless Monday
It is getting near the end of Black History Month. We are taking it easy with this one so have decided to re-post a piece from our sister site Weal Food: Meatless […]
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