1.非洲黑人的历史和文化遗产
African Heritage Month, Dwayne Provo, Tim Houston, and Pat Dunn
Events for African Heritage Month were held across the province in early February, including avirtual proclamationby the province, hosted by Dwayne Provo, the Associate Deputy Minister of the Office of African Nova Scotian Affairs.
该活动由KeontéBeals和来自Russell Gross的演讲代表黑色教育工作者协会代表新的斯科舍省和Krystal国家的黑色文化中心表演。来自全省的一些市长向非洲遗产月份发出了自己的宣言，亚瑟·勒布朗中尉亚瑟·勒布朗纳官方遗产月份2022年海报。
Premier Tim Houston, issued the official provincial proclamation, and Pat Dunn, African Nova Scotian Affairs Minister was also at the event.
“我很荣幸地在今天的非洲遗产月份庆祝活动中，”邓恩说。“在全省看到这么多社区持有当地庆祝活动是很棒的，以便在这个重要的月份开始。”
“I hope all Nova Scotians take part in the African Heritage Month events during February. And please use this time to reflect on African Nova Scotian history and the role you play in creating positive change.”
2. Angela Simmonds running for the Liberal leadership
Angela Simmonds. Photo: Nova Scotia Legislature
On February 4, Preston MLA Angela Simmonds was the第一人宣布她正在为Nova Scotia自由派派对的领导。
“I’m definitely not new to building trust and relationships … I’ve had my own business, but also worked in education and employment, and raised a family, and went back to law school at 36. So balancing priorities is an asset that I can bring,” Simmonds said.
yarmouth mla zach丘吉尔自宣布宣布，他也在为领导而奔跑。前非洲新星斯科人事务部长托尼Ince在丘吉尔的官方公告中曾在手头。
In aninterview with the Examiner, Simmonds talked about her campaign for the leadership. Simmonds also talked about an ongoing investigation about her and her husband, Halifax Regional Police Supt. Dean Simmonds’ accusations of racism towards the Cole Harbour RCMP, and RCMP Supt. Jeremie Landry leaking alleged details of the ongoing investigation.
3. Wanda Robson passes away
Wanda Robson和九年历史的Tayte Douglas在2017年揭幕威廉王小学的“Viola Desmond”的“ABC的ABC”。照片：Rae-Leah Douglas。
Wanda Robson, the younger sister of the late Viola Desmond,去年过去了在95岁。
A letter that Robson wrote in 2009 to the mayor of New Glasgow where Desmond where arrested and convicted for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in 1946 helped lead to Desmond receiving the first posthumous pardon in the province’s history in 2010.
“Besides being a mother and grandmother, Wanda was the author of a bestselling autobiography, a motivational speaker who spoke to dozens of schools across Canada, an award-winning storyteller, and importantly an advocate for justice for her sister — the beloved Nova Scotia and Canadian civil right icon Viola Desmond,” wrote Robson’s friend David Woods in aFacebook post跟着她的传递。
2017年，Robson在儿童书中写了前锋，“Viola Desmond的ABC'是”，这是一类来自哈利法克斯威廉王小学的一类毕业生2和3级的学生所写的。
Tayte Douglas, a Black student who served as one of the book’s co-authors, and her mother Rae-Leah Douglas spoke to the Examiner about Robson showing up to the school unannounced to help launch the book, as well as meeting her on several occasions that followed.
“It was pretty clear that [Robson] was pretty proud of this book and the fact that the kids were involved in it, because she also made sure that that group of kids from the school were invited when they unveiled the $10 bill at the library,” Douglas said. “And that was an invite-only event.”
“他们一切都要看到她第一次看到10美元的钞票。
“她真的很喜欢她周围的小孩子的公司，”Tayte说。“她和我谈过了很多，她非常喜欢我，我非常喜欢她，因为她真的很好。”
“I just feel like a part of her existence,” she said. “Just a very kind person, and it was very sad to hear that she passed away.”
4.理查德普雷斯顿的遗产
审查员spoke Isaac Saney, a Black history professor at Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s, about the life andlegacy of the late Reverend Richard Preston。
Preston was a former slave from Virginia who made his way to Halifax following the War of 1812 in search of his mother who he ended up finding in the community of Preston from which he took his surname.
普雷斯顿是美国的传教士，并继续成为一名任命的部长，并在新的斯科舍省成立了几个黑色教堂，这是非洲浸信会协会（ABA）的一部分。该组织现在被称为非洲联合施洗协会（Auba），是该省最古老而最长的（仍然活跃的）黑色机构。
普雷斯顿成立的第一个教会在哈利法克斯的康沃尔斯街上被称为非洲教堂。它后来将其名字改为康沃尔斯街施洗教堂，然后在最近将其名称改为新的视野浸信会教堂，以努力从爱德华康沃斯的遗产中距离。该教会目前正在改造上，最近推出了一个询问人们为190美元的捐款的竞选活动，即即将到来的190年周年纪念日。
Preston died in July of 1861 and was buried on Crane Hill in Preston, on or near where Grandview Golf and Country Club now sits.
“It’s important to understand that, for the Black community, the only institutional material available was the church itself,” Saney said. “The church had to play multiple roles,” Saney said. “It also became an advocate on issues of getting more land. Later on, after Preston’s death, it becomes an advocate for challenging segregated education.”
“To call Preston the father of the African Nova Scotian community is not an overstatement,” Saney said. “And he was seen as the leader. He was tremendously well respected. Preston was extremely charismatic, a hard worker, eloquent, articulate individual who could mobilize the community.”
普雷斯顿的名字是哈利法克斯市的几个名称，目前正在考虑康沃尔斯街的重命名。
5. Canada’s first all-Black fire hall to be repurposed
Aiden Anderson, Gina Jones-Wilson, and Lennett Anderson at the future site of the Elizabeth Mantley Youth Recreational and Cultural Arts Center. Photo: Dean Anderson / YouTube.
在上篮上哈蒙兹的黑色社区的Pockwock路上，有一座习惯于众所周心的建筑物，以众所周置的第一家全黑志愿者消防部门。
After being decommissioned in 2013 the Upper Hammonds Plains Community Development Association has since re-aquired ownership of the building and its property. The plan now is to develop it into the Elizabeth Mantley Art and Youth Recreation Centre, named after the late Elizabeth Mantley, who donated land for the creation of the department.
Gina Jones-Wilson是上哈蒙兹平原社区发展协会的总裁。她是一个退休的消防中尉，是部门的第一个女性会员。她的父亲和Lennett Anderson的父亲，Emmanuel Baptist Church的牧师，正在成立部门的成员。
琼斯 - 威尔逊和安德森与审查员发表谈话in separate interviews about the creation and history of the former fire hall, its role as a community gathering place in addition to a fire hall, and the efforts to re-acquire the building and the land and turn it into a space for youth in the predominately-Black community of Upper Hammonds Plains.
“And I said to Gina, ‘Yes! I believe that we need to repurpose the space on purpose, with purpose,’” said Anderson. “And she said, ‘I love that theme: Repurpose on purpose with purpose.’”
In a church service, Anderson called on Elizabeth Mantley’s daughter Doreen Mantley to thank and honour her mother for her efforts in donating the land.
“我的家人和我想谢谢你，每个工作的人都在社区中保留消防部门，并为今天的认可。来自我和我的家人的爱和祝福。并谢谢你，牧师安德森，“马鞍利说。
6. Family Over Fame
在大街道的名人广告牌的家庭在达特茅斯。照片：Alex Ross。
Last month, local Black-owned clothing company Family Over Fame increased its ad reach with two large billboards in Halifax and Dartmouth, as well as 40 ads on 40 different Halifax Transit buses throughout the city.
品牌的创始人亚历克斯“CUNNY”罗斯spoke with the Examinerabout the new ad-campaign, his background growing up in Uniacke Square, as well as the founding of Family Over Fame and his second clothing brand Alex Ross Clothing.
Ross said that despite growing up around a lot of violence and drug dealing, he had a strong foundation at home and was able to both keep his nose clean while maintaining a solid reputation in his community.
He said that when he released a series of t-shirts to help promote his hip hop music album Family Over Fame, his community was eager to support him and encouraged him to take things further.
“所以，一旦我听说来自我社区的居民，我就像你知道什么，它实际上会聪明地投资，把它变成一个商业，让我们看看它的位置，”他说。
“They just knew who I was, they knew I was a kid who loved playing basketball. Anytime you would see Cunny walking on Gottingen you would always see him with his basketball, with his backpack, or see him with his headphones on.”
“We wanted to take our advertising to the next level. We wanted to show Black youth and Black businesses that anything is possible in terms of showing your face on a billboard,” he said. “I just wanted to be one of the guys and one of the businesses to pave the way and show them like, we can do this, too.”
7. Murder investigations / $150,000 reward
Left photo: Brandon Reginald Polegato. Right photo: Joseph Beals.
Last month marked the one-year anniversaries of the homicides of two Black men in their mid-20s in Halifax and Dartmouth last year.
On February 7, 2021, the body ofBrandon Reginald Polegato9点之前被发现在走廊的吗n apartment building on Washmill Lake Drive in Halifax. Police said Polegato “succumbed to gunshot injuries.” He was 26.
On February 20, 2021, 25-year-oldJoseph Beals是在爱德华山上的单车碰撞的驾驶员是在下午2点之后的枪伤伤口危及危及生命的伤害。他后来在医院死亡。
Last month Crime Stoppers said they believe there are people with information who could help solve the murders and issued calls for anyone with information to come forward.
上个月省还宣布了一个$150,000 reward对于任何有资料的人，导致杀人杀人的凶杀案。
8. Open letter criticizes Halifax Board of Police Commissioners
审查员发布了一个公开信来自60多名人员和组织，称，警察局委员会哈利法委员会在哈利法克斯警察预算方面错过了公众参与公众参与的标志。
“When the Board agreed to host the special meeting on January 31st, it also scheduled the budget vote for the same evening – not giving Commissioners time in between to truly digest the public’s feedback, or consider its impact on the HRP budget request,” the letter states.
“Last Monday night’s special meeting was supposed to be an opportunity to gather rich, community-driven data that reflected multiple perspectives and demographics. The Board fumbled that opportunity.”
这public engagement session followed and was prompted by recommendations made in a report looking to define defunding the police that made 36 recommendations and was made available to HRM staff in October 2021 before being made public in January.
这letter describes the engagement session as “an adversarial debate, not a community forum,” after kicking off “with statements from Police Chief Kinsella, setting the tone for the remainder of the session.”
“To further amplify the hostility towards community participation, HRM Chief Administrative Officer Jacques Dubé added commentary undermining public presenters by suggesting that they misunderstood the process at hand,” the letter states.
“Regardless of where members of the public actually stand on the issue of defunding, it is evident that treating engagement as nothing more than a box to tick makes the process itself meaningless. It makes you wonder: was this an engagement session, or a disengagement tactic?”
“轮流仁丽可以提供关于官员退易的可靠数据，自12月份由哈里克利专员（报告的共同作者）以来专门要求的数据。经过一个多小时的“在相机”之后，首席仁丽为董事会制作私人案例以获取更多资金，远离公众审查，董事会返回批准他所要求的一切。“
这letter also cited “a self-study commissioned by the Board in 2016 revealed that “the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners has failed to meet its legislated governance requirements under the 2006 Police Act for the past 10 years.”
It went on to list 10 suggested changes the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners should make to its future budgetary processes.
9.肖像透露了城市的第一个黑警官
Portrait unveiled of the late Sinclair Williams, the first Black police officer on the Dartmouth Police Department. His son, Evan Williams, and wife, Dolly Williams, pose with the portrait. Photo: Halifax Regional Police.
迟到了。来自东普雷斯顿的Sinclair Williams是上个月的荣誉portrait of him was unveiled在哈利法克斯区域警察总部将显示。
1968年，威廉姆斯成为前达特茅斯警察局的第一位黑人警察，于1996年在融合之前哈利法克斯区域警察的前任部门之一。
“春秋国旅。威廉姆斯在2014年去世,但他的遗产continues with a scholarship fund in his honour,” HRP said in a statement. “Chief Dan Kinsella was honoured to be joined by Dolly Williams, the wife of the late Cst. Sinclair Williams and her son, Evan, who are pictured here for the unveiling.”
这portrait was painted by African Nova Scotian artist,Letitia Fraser。
10.黑色发射
Photo: Blacklantic.ca
这first day of Black History Month saw the launch ofBlacklantic, a new podcast, website, and media platform aimed at amplifying the voices of people of colour throughout the Atlantic provinces.
它的创始人和播客主持人，克林顿戴维斯和希拉里·勒布朗与审查员发表谈话about the platform’s creation, their plans for it, and their backgrounds.
戴维斯在多伦多长大，作为一个孩子去了裴，他的母亲来自哪里。他说，他没有经历明显的种族主义，直到他在2009年他的父母在那里开始访问蒙克斯顿。他后来搬到了蒙克蒙顿，他现在所在的地方。
LeBlanc said she experienced racism growing up in Moncton but learned to normalize much of it. It wasn’t until she moved to Toronto as an adult, where she now resides, where she says she began to experience a sense of comradery with other Black people. She said that opened her eyes to much of the realities of racism in her home province.
戴维斯和克林顿遇到了一个类似播客平台的前同期，在Maritimes中是黑色的，这也是基于新的不伦瑞克。
Blacklantic.ca不仅可以链接到过去的新播客的剧集，还有一系列由戴维斯和克林顿编写的博客，以及萨凡纳托马斯的黑色新的布伦瑞克贡献者。
11.在玛丽亚中黑色
黑色在Maritimes创造者和主持人，菲德尔佛朗哥缪斯。照片：Fidel Franco Mosquea。
这creator and host of theBlack In The Maritimes播客，Fidel Franco，也与审查员发表谈话last month about his platform, its creation, and some of his background.
Originally from the Dominican Republic, Franco moved to Moncton in 2010. He describes being shocked when observing many of the specific ways systemic racism manifests itself in North American society, particularly in New Brunswick.
He said he was one of only a small handful of Black workers at a call centre where he met Marcus Marcial, who is Black and from Saint John. He said he and Marcial would compare notes about a lot of the racism they witnessed and experienced in New Brunswick. From those conversations, he said is where the idea for the podcast came about.
Over the years, Black In The Maritimes has had various teams Black of co-hosts (including Hillary LeBlanc and Clinton Davis), partnered with media organizations such as CBC, and has featured many Black guests such as Ontario NDP MP Matthew Green, former Ontario Liberal-turned-independent MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes, and two-time guest, Halifax poet and author George Elliott Clarke.
Since speaking with the Examiner, Franco邀请了我作为黑色的客人，在玛丽亚中谈论我的一些背景。
12. Halifax Black Film Festival
这Halifax Black Film Festival发行ed a series of six virtual panel discussions last month titled the ‘Black Market Series.’
面板和主持人主要是黑色。虽然大多数讨论主要涉及电视和电影制作，但一个讨论，“媒体可以真正制造或打破我们？”专注于新闻媒体的多样性主题。
我参加了一部分as a panelist for the discussion along with University of King’s College journalism instructors Brian Daly and Trina Roach, Mi’kmaq community member, Jarvis Googoo, Black community member DeRico Symonds, and Black community member Amber Fryday, a Global News reporter who moderated the discussion.
这entire Black market Series is available to watch for free byclicking here。
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