{"id":6630,"date":"2021-02-16T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2021-02-16T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:22:36","slug":"celebrating-black-history-month-with-your-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/2021\/02\/16\/celebrating-black-history-month-with-your-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Black History Month With Your Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/kidscbc2\/the-feed\/all-about-black-history-month\">Black History Month<\/a>! You can celebrate, discuss, and learn about Canadian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/explore-enjoy\/history-art-culture\/black-history-month\/\">Black heritage and culture<\/a>\u00a0with children by accessing multiple resources.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/canadian-heritage\/campaigns\/black-history-month\/black-canadians.html\">Black Canadians<\/a>\u00a0have helped shape Canadian society and celebrating their contributions raises awareness and pays tribute to Black heritage and human rights. Here is a list of resources to help you get started:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6675\" style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/kidscbc2\/the-feed\/all-about-black-history-month\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6675\" class=\"wp-image-6675 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/files\/2019\/02\/wts_blackhistorymonth_branded.jpg\" alt=\"Family reading a book together \" width=\"848\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/files\/2019\/02\/wts_blackhistorymonth_branded.jpg 848w, https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/files\/2019\/02\/wts_blackhistorymonth_branded-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/files\/2019\/02\/wts_blackhistorymonth_branded-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: 123rf\/Wavebreak Media Ltd.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Attend family friendly local Black History Month events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontopubliclibrary.ca\/programs-and-classes\/featured\/black-history-month.jsp\"><strong>Toronto Public Library<\/strong><\/a> has a number of Black History Month events and reading links. You can also browse through 16,000 books, DVDs, CDs, newspapers and magazines, Black and Caribbean historical and cultural experience, with a special emphasis on Canadian content.<\/li>\n<li>A sample of the offerings include:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdcast.io\/e\/tplbhspeculative\/register?utm_source=profile&amp;utm_medium=profile_web&amp;utm_campaign=profile\">Imagine a World: Nalo Hopkinson and Lateef Martin with Karen Lord<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.tpl.ca\/shared\/black-history-2021-childrens-reading-list\/IIVKePcj6E8S2D4Yx4L0dzff0silqkcgzRj151aKzAgZLyiuuf\"><strong>Black History 2021 \u2013 Children\u2019s Reading List<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torontopubliclibrary.ca\/books-video-music\/specialized-collections\/rita-cox-black-caribbean.jsp\">Rita Cox Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m a little bit of country, she\u2019s a little bit of \u201cBach?\u201d Plan a watch party and watch a pre-recorded performance of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CAWbee2zQC0\">Celebrations and Revelations 2021<\/a>. Four young Black Canadian artists performed the music of Black composers from the 17th-21st century <span style=\"font-size: inherit\">you\u2019ve discovered to celebrate Black History Month with your family in the comments below!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The University of Toronto is celebrating throughout February with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utoronto.ca\/news\/hack-thons-wakanda-u-t-celebrates-black-history-month-virtual-events\">events on all three campuses<\/a>. Some of these include:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utsc.utoronto.ca\/studentlife\/black-history-month\">Student Life UTSC Black History Month<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/news.engineering.utoronto.ca\/black-history-month-2021-black-women-in-stem\/\">Celebrating Black women in STEM<\/a> on our current students and alumni at U of T Engineering<\/li>\n<li>The Medium at UTM wrote an article <a href=\"https:\/\/themedium.ca\/features\/reimagining-black-history-month\/\">Reimagining Black History Month<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Explore festivals, museums or archives to learn about Black History: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trace your ancestry at the Archives of Ontario <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov.on.ca\/en\/tracing\/index.aspx\">City of Toronto Archives<\/a><u>.<\/u><\/li>\n<li>Get your <strong>#blackedouthistory<\/strong> of history and leaders of tomorrow with the <a href=\"https:\/\/blackhistorysociety.ca\/\">Ontario Black History Society<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harbourfrontcentre.com\/kuumba\/\">Kuumba<\/a> is BACK! Toronto\u2019s longest running Black History Month festival, returns for its 26th edition to celebrate the Black community standing in our Blackness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Watch (stream) shows on Black History:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s cold this month, but CBC has the hottest films, movies, and documentaries for you to view on <a href=\"https:\/\/gem.cbc.ca\/category\/the-black-stories-collection\/featured-all\/b91edafa-e916-4c33-9e41-6c22314285df?cmp=sch-black\">THE BLACK STORIES COLLECTION<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Vous parlez\u00a0fran\u00e7ais ? <a href=\"https:\/\/parici.radio-canada.ca\/accueil\/10506\/RADIO-CANADA-SOULIGNE-LE-MOIS-DE-LHISTOIRE-DES-NOIRS\">RADIO-CANADA SOULIGNE LE MOIS DE L&#8217;HISTOIRE DES NOIRS<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Educational Videos <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ObGbTPZGeB4\">BLACK HISTORY IN CANADA A SELECT TIMELINE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MCg1t3mdWwM\">Deeply Rooted: A black family&#8217;s history as 7th-generation Canadians<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Share additional resources you\u2019ve discovered to celebrate Black History Month with your family in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February is\u00a0Black History Month! You can celebrate, discuss, and learn about Canadian\u00a0Black heritage and culture\u00a0with children by accessing multiple resources.\u00a0Black&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/2021\/02\/16\/celebrating-black-history-month-with-your-family\/\" title=\"Read Celebrating Black History Month With Your Family\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":6675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13815,10061,13805],"tags":[1373,25788,1370,237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6630"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7182,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions\/7182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/intersections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}