The Harriet Tubman Student and Teacher Programs at York U

The Harriet Tubman Student and Teacher Programs at York U Youth & Teachers participate in weekly workshops, classes and trips focused in the contributions of African peoples to the world.

Youth and teachers will participate in daily activities (art, dance, creative writing, sport, storytelling, graffiti, music, workshops, trips and classes) that will give them an overview of the contributions of African peoples and cultures to the historical development of the world. Experienced educators, facilitators, volunteers and students from York University will deliver the sessions. Some th

emes:

African and Caribbean Histories. The Slave trade in Africans and slave resistance (historical and contemporary representations). African, Caribbean and Afro-Latinoamerican identities. Memory, community values like folkloric traditions in African, African Diaspora (African descended communities outside of Africa) and specifically the African Canadian contexts. Museums, archives and popular culture. Contemporary issues of histories of migrations, race, slavery, education and gender. Introduction to technology to digitalize community historical records: working sessions, photographs and documents. Director: Historian Abubacar Fofana Leon

02/26/2019
02/10/2019

In examining and addressing opportunity gaps for racialized students in schools, school boards must learn to account for present-day and historical inequities.

IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH @ York UThe Harriet Tubman Institute and the Black Canadian Studies Certificate pr...
02/09/2019

IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH @ York U

The Harriet Tubman Institute and the Black Canadian Studies Certificate present: "Writing and Researching Blackness in the Academy" , Feb 15

Event is free and open to the public

02/09/2019

These paper and fabric designs are vibrant and larger-than-life, depicting faces of famous black figures throughout history.

IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH @ York U
02/08/2019

IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH @ York U

IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTHTubman Talks: "In Dubious Battle: Paradoxes in the Education of African Canadians",...
02/05/2019

IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Tubman Talks: "In Dubious Battle: Paradoxes in the Education of African Canadians", at talk by Kwesi Firempong is a PhD candidate in Education.

Abstract:

A potential transformative turn in the education of Black learners, particularly in North America and England, has been instrumentalized in the establishment of Black-focused or Africentric schools. On the heels of this turn is the growing acceptance, ever so grudgingly of Africentric pedagogies now made more palatable by the less ominous sounding culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP). Finally, in Canada, a convergence of the interests of an embarrassed educational establishment and activist segments of the Black populations of Nova Scotia and Ontario has been achieved. The high non-completion rates and the disproportional under achievement of Blacks within the schooling system had to be addressed by any means necessary, even “segregation”. Africentrists, in the process, have clawed their way to a tenuous foothold on the public purse.

Bio

Kwesi Firempong is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education. He earned his MAEd at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, where he explored the impact of the 1968 Black Panther Party visit to Halifax on African Nova Scotian activism for social justice and equality. His arts informed thesis on the event was concretized in a stage play to be produced this summer in Halifax.

02/03/2019

Most people have no idea that Marian Croak, an African American woman, has been credited with initiating and furthering the development of VOIP, also known as Voice Over Internet Protocol.

02/03/2019

The noted abolitionist and suffragist Sojourner Truth is being honored by a Google Doodle that kicks off Black History Month on Feb. 1. Subscribe to TIME ►► ...

02/03/2019

Many of the historians of the 19th century and early 20th century left African Americans out. Carter G. Woodson set out to change that

02/03/2019

Photo: Teach for America The students in Terrance Sims' sixth grade book club are celebrating Black History Month by recreating the book covers of influential Black figures they're learning about. From our Forever First Lady, to the revolutionary Malcolm X and Assata Shakur, to a young, Black girl o...

02/03/2019

Rapper Jamal Knox was convicted of making terroristic threats against two Pittsburgh police officers in a rap song. Now his case is before the Supreme Court, with serious implications for free speech.

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