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The erasure of Black narratives persists

By: Michelle Young, Opinions Editor Content 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 feature the intersectional work of Black people. The quotation marks around “forgotten” are meant to question — forgotten by whom? There is so much history not taught by our institutions, and many people don’t know more solely because it wasn’t taught to them, or they didn’t look. Canadian Viola Desmond, for example, challenged racial segregation…

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