| February 1, 2009 | to | February 28, 2009 |
Event for Youth Age 11-18
Tuesday, February 10th, 5:30pm-7:30pm: Ban Righ Centre, 32 Bader Lane
A workshop for black, racialized and/or immigrant youth who wish to learn more about Black History Month through questions of leadership and understanding ways in
which people are valorized or devalued in society.
Using film clips and short readings, we will discuss the contributions of prominent people from …
Celebrity Colonialism: South African Perspectives on Oprah ~ Wednesday February 27 at noon at the Ban Righ Centre (32 Bader Lane)
Mary Caesar: M.A. (History)
In December 2006, Oprah Winfrey, best known for her talk show, opened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. What was Oprah’s dream has been realized and now the 150 new students are living theirs. [Oprah.com] Rescuing …
On Thursday February 28, Queen’s Engaging Africa Initiative welcomes Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza to campus to speak on “The Pasts and Futures of African Studies” in the Biosciences Complex, Lecture Hall 1102 at 7:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public. A reception for Dr. Zeleza will follow in the Biosciences Atrium.
Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is …
The Kingston African Caribbean Collective presents Black History Month Kingston 2008! Please visit www.qcred.org for details of events or download a calendar here.
OPIRG will be displaying a history of Black History Month in Kingston, at the Alternative Resource Library, located at 51 Bader Lane for the entire month of February. The hours of the library are:
Mon 9-4 …
The City of Kingston recognized February as Black History Month. Check out their site for the online declaration:
http://www.cityofkingston.ca/cityhall/council/proclamations/Notice-070117_02.asp
Whereas, diversity of social identity, including racial and cultural identity, contributes positively to the development of society and is a matter for pride and celebration; and
Whereas, people of African heritage work to challenge continued individual and systemic discrimination on the basis …
I would like to invite all interested students, staff, and faculty members to sit on a task force at Queen’s that will plan two key initiatives to observe the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. On November 28, 2006 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Act to Abolish the …
date: February 5-9, 12, 15, and 26-27 from 10:00 am-5:00 pm
location: Robert Sutherland Room, JDUC, Queen’s
Come out and self-educate. Information and pictures of Black Historical landmarks will be on display. Information on the Anti-Slavery movement, Black Loyalists, Africville, etc. Free. Presented by the African & Caribbean Student Association (ACSA).
contact: Anu.Hundeyin@gmail.com
| February 12, 2007 |
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
Black History Exposé: Student Exposure on Black History.
What does It Mean to You?
date: Monday, February 12 from 6:00-7:30 pm
location: Robert Sutherland Room, JDUC
There will be a student speaker and student poets. Come out and debate; be a part of Black History on the Queen’s Campus. Rule out ignorance, spread Education. Free. Presented by the African & Caribbean Student …
| February 15, 2007 |
| 1:30 pm | to | 3:30 pm |
Black Radicalism & the Making of Indigenous “Red” Power in Canada, 1965-1975
date: Thursday February 15 at 1:30 pm
location: Room 351, JDUC, Queen’s
Lecture by Scott Rutherford, PhD candidate, Queen’s Department of History. Free public talk. Presented by CARED.
contact: cared@ams.queensu.ca
| February 28, 2007 |
| 2:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
Celebration of the Bi-centennial Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
date: Wednesday February 28 at 2:00 pm
location: Robert Sutherland Room, JDUC, Queen’s
Free public lecture by Dr. Afua Cooper, this year’s Robert Sutherland Visitor.
On March 25, 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act received Royal Assent: marking the end of the official trafficing of human beings. Join the Committee …
| February 20, 2007 |
| 5:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Parent Workshop: Exclusion and Your Children
date: February 20, 2007 5:00-7:00pm
location: The Ban Right Centre, 32 Bader Lane
Presenter: Anita Davies, Antiracism/Education Advisor, Queens’ Human Rights Office. Co-sponsored by Queen’s Human Rights Office, Black History Month Kingston & KARRA.
Exclusion based on race, gender, class, sexual orientation, family structure, ability, and age can be painful for marginalized groups within a community setting. …
Check out the events commemorating and celebrating February 2007 as Black History Month.
Keep an eye out around Kingston for Black History Month guides or download an event list.
Black History Month was officially recognized by the Canadian Parliament in December 1995 to raise awareness about the contributions of African Canadians, past and present. Each year, Black History Month …
| February 28, 2007 |
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
date: Wednesday February 28, 7:30pm
location: The Grad Club, Henderson Room, corner of Barrie and Union Streets
Join us for a free screening of Journey into Justice. This highly recommended documentary pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court. They are Canada’s unsung heroes in the fight for Black civil rights. Focusing on the 1930s …
| February 27, 2007 |
| 12:00 pm | to | 1:00 pm |
date: Tuesday February 27 from 12:00 to 1:00 pm
location: Queen’s U. Ban Righ Centre, 32 Bader Lane
Drawing on her recent book, Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle, Queen’s University Women’s Studies Professor Katherine McKittrick will discuss the ways in which the production of space is lived, expressed, and resisted by black women.
The paper considers the ways …