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Ice Breakers
Ice Breakers
Josh Crooks is a promising teen hockey star in a sport where Black players like him are chronically underrepresented.
Ice Breakers reveals the buried history of a pioneering Black hockey league in Atlantic Canada, as Crooks discovers that his unshakable passion is tied to a rich and remarkable heritage.
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This is Josh Crooks
True North: The Rise of Toronto Basketball
True North: The Rise of Toronto Basketball
Take an intimate look at the rise of 5 aspiring athletes in Ryan Sidhoo's nine part docu-series that captures the raw emotion of navigating today’s youth basketball machine.
if the links arent working, you can find the series on Youtube. Search "True North: The Rise of Toronto Basketball" or something near that to get the episodes.
Black Cop
Black Cop
It's not easy being a black cop. For one officer already struggling between duty and moral obligation, things take a drastic turn when he is profiled by his colleagues off-duty, pushing him over the edge. Armed with the power of his badge, an antagonizing radio show for company, and some good old fashioned rage, the stage is set for a whirlwind day filled with vendetta and just desserts, as Black Cop targets the community he's sworn to protect.
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This is a short video of how black cops in general are being discriminated against.
Social Me
Social Me
This short documentary examines the role of social media in the lives of teenagers. To the younger generation, social media is more than just a communication tool: it’s a way of life, a sphere in which to explore and create their own universes -- often at the expense of face-to-face interaction. As young Nya enters adulthood, she takes a critical look at how social media has impacted and continues to influence the shaping of her identity, experiences and values.
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A video of a little social experiment in Korea. (if the link isn't working its because you are on your school account. You can search up something like "social experiment" and you can find plenty of these)
Black Girl
Black Girl
This is about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally. It turns into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world
You can watch the movie here (unfortunately its for money)
The trailer of the movie
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro
Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished - Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends -Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. The result is a radical, examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words, spoken by Samuel L. Jackson, and a flood of rich archival material.
Important Black figures in Canada
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Cary pushed for equality for all people
Was one of the most outspoken and intelligent women of her era
Supported the abolishing of slavery
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Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
Made black individuals influential in colonial politics
The first Black person to gain public office in British Columbia
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Rosemary Brown
Made black colonists a political force
She was chosen for Victoria City Council
She became the first Black person to hold public office in British Columbia
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Violet King
When she was admitted to the bar in 1954, she became the first Black woman to practice law in Canada
She became the first Black lawyer to be admitted in the province of Alberta
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