Black history
Black women musicians and the stubborn R&B label
March 16, 2026Black women in music tend to get boxed into one repeated spot: rhythm and blues, more commonly known as R&B. Black artists in general tend to get pigeonholed in genres like rap, hip-hop, and R&B. However, Black women experience a unique struggle in the music industry at the intersection of racism and misogyny. Black women artists are labelled R&B despite making music in different genres. Even in R&B, a genre where Black women thrive, they’re often overshadowed by men and fight harder to achieve the same recognition as white artists. Genres like pop, indie, and rock have often excluded women…
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Hogan’s Alley Society hosts discussion on the importance of Afrocentric values
March 2, 2026On February 10, the Hogan’s Alley Society (HAS) hosted an online discussion exploring the impact of Afrocentric values in public spaces throughout the Lower Mainland. The event, which is part of the organization’s “Building Belonging” series, featured a panel of…
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Black spaces that feel like home
February 24, 2026Last December, I went home to see my family for the holidays, as I do every year. It was a great time, and after months away, the warmth of being in majority-Black spaces envelopes me. So let me let you…
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Remembering Assata Shakur
February 17, 2026Content warning: mentions of solitary confinement. Humans of all walks of life leave an imprint as they live. But once they’re gone, this imprint solidifies itself into a legacy. Assata Olugbala Shakur is one of those people. Born JoAnne Deborah…
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Film and literature tell the story of The Nickel Boys from different angles
March 12, 2025Content warning: this piece talks in-depth about slavery and racial segregation. Colson Whitehead’s novel The Nickel Boys tells the story of two boys doing time in a reform school. Elwood Curtis, who is falsely accused of a crime he didn’t…
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SOCA, SFPIRG, and CPSHR screen Black August
March 10, 2025Content warning: mentions of police brutality and homicides. On February 24, SFU Students of African and Caribbean Ancestry (SOCA), Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG), and Canada-Phillipines Solidarity for Human Rights (CPSHR) joined together to host a screening of…
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The erasure of Black narratives persists
February 21, 2024Content warning: mentions of racism and enslavement. Perhaps we know Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks — but what else is known about how Black people shaped history in Canada and the US? There are many “forgotten” histories that…
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Union Street captures Vancouver’s vibrant Black community through history
October 17, 2023Content warning: mentions of systemic racism and displacement. Union Street is a documentary film highlighting Vancouver’s historic Black neighbourhood located in Strathcona. Known colloquially as Hogan’s Alley, it was systemically disrupted and displaced by the City of Vancouver’s construction of…
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Alice Mũrage discusses the diversity among Black people in BC
March 14, 2023Alice Mũrage is a health researcher, health sciences PhD candidate, part of the Gender and COVID-19 project, and the director of the African Ancestry Project. The Peak attended a talk where she presented her findings from her report for the…
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Photography exhibition tour challenges the colonial gaze
February 27, 2023As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic is The Polygon Gallery’s latest exhibit, from February 24 to May 14. It’s part of an ongoing photography exhibition tour curated by SFU Masters alum and curator Elliott Ramsey, whose non-binary and…
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