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Highlighting BIPOC stories and contributions ✊🏿 | AI photo colourization 🎨| #BlackLivesMatter | Created by Stephanie Wiafe and Travis Morton

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Professional athlete, teacher, and advocate, Harry Jerome represents Canadian Black excellence and embodies perseverance and grace. Despite suffering severe injuries and relentless media criticism, Harry was a record breaking runner, winning medals at the 1960 Tokyo Olympic Games

Professional athlete, teacher, and advocate, Harry Jerome represents Canadian Black excellence and embodies perseverance and grace. Despite suffering severe injuries and relentless media criticism, Harry was a record breaking runner, winning medals at the 1960 Tokyo Olympic Games
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We need to celebrate #BIPOC Canadian athletes, while also acknowledging that their successes don’t come without the challenges of racism and discrimination.

We need to celebrate #BIPOC Canadian athletes, while also acknowledging that their successes don’t come without the challenges of racism and discrimination.
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Politician, feminist, writer, educator, lecturer and mother, Rosemary Brown has made significant contributions to Canadian society. Rosemary is one of Canada’s most successful and dedicated Black activists. She helped found the BCAACP.

Politician, feminist, writer, educator, lecturer and mother, Rosemary Brown has made significant contributions to Canadian society. Rosemary is one of Canada’s most successful and dedicated Black activists. She helped found the BCAACP.
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Rosemary Brown did just that, she rose to the top as one of Canada’s most influential and powerful Black female #activists. #BlackLivesMatter #BLM

Rosemary Brown did just that, she rose to the top as one of Canada’s most influential and powerful Black female #activists. #BlackLivesMatter #BLM
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Ruby Bridges and her family’s heroic choice to challenge school-based racial segregation laws opened the door for so many other Black children to receive better education. Ruby was the first Black child to attend a White-only school in the United States.

Ruby Bridges and her family’s heroic choice to challenge school-based racial segregation laws opened the door for so many other Black children to receive better education. Ruby was the first Black child to attend a White-only school in the United States.
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Happy Birthday Mary Ann Shadd Cary! Abolitionist Shadd Cary became the first female Black newspaper editor in North America when she started the Black newspaper The Provincial Freemen. She also became the second Black woman in the United States to earn a law degree.

Happy Birthday Mary Ann Shadd Cary! Abolitionist Shadd Cary became the first female Black newspaper editor in North America when she started the Black newspaper The Provincial Freemen. She also became the second Black woman in the United States to earn a law degree.
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Henrietta Lacks faced medial racism. As a patient her unique immortal cells were taken from her cervix without her knowledge or consent. Today HeLa cells are used in an array of medical research, and her family is fighting to establish stronger rules to govern their use.

Henrietta Lacks faced medial racism. As a patient her unique immortal cells were taken from her cervix without her knowledge or consent. Today HeLa cells are used in an array of medical research, and her family is fighting to establish stronger rules to govern their use.
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Today we honour Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Corey’s Scott King. We honour their legacy but upholding our unwavering and unapologetic commitment to anti-racism and actively dismantling white supremacy in our world.

Today we honour Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Corey’s Scott King. We honour their legacy but upholding our unwavering and unapologetic commitment to anti-racism and actively dismantling white supremacy in our world.
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“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?... a day that reveals to him… the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham… your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery…” - Frederick Douglass

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?... a day that reveals to him… the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham… your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery…” - Frederick Douglass
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Kay Livingstone’s legacy is alive and well today and is a reflection of her tireless work in female Black self-determination, empowerment, and success. instagram.com/p/CLCMRATrHjq/…

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John Ware was a charismatic and influential Canadian cowboy in the early years of the ranching industry in Southern Alberta. He is legendary Albertan history for his strength and horsemanship and he was among the first ranchers to settle Alberta. #BlackLifeInColour

John Ware was a charismatic and influential Canadian cowboy in the early years of the ranching industry in Southern Alberta. He is legendary Albertan history for his strength and horsemanship and he was among the first ranchers to settle Alberta. #BlackLifeInColour
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“That was some woman, my sister.” - Wanda Robson on her sister Viola Desmond. Read our new post on Viola’s impact and legacy: instagram.com/p/CLfI7iRLiWA/…

“That was some woman, my sister.” - Wanda Robson on her sister Viola Desmond. Read our new post on Viola’s impact and legacy: instagram.com/p/CLfI7iRLiWA/…
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John Lewis has been astronomically influential in my life. I’m still grieving his loss but today, on his birthday, I’m celebrating his legacy. - Steph instagram.com/p/CLkADBOLJQA/…

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NEW ISSP Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa BLOG We must reckon with the history of medical racism and violence in order to address vaccine hesitancy in African, Caribbean, Black and Indigenous communities @stephanie_wiafe and Stacey Smith? #uottawa #isspscience #covid19 issp.uottawa.ca/en/news/we-mus…

NEW ISSP <a href="/uOttawa/">Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa</a> BLOG 

We must reckon with the history of medical racism and violence in order to address vaccine hesitancy in African, Caribbean, Black and Indigenous communities 

@stephanie_wiafe and Stacey Smith?

#uottawa #isspscience #covid19

issp.uottawa.ca/en/news/we-mus…