Advocates across the Prairie provinces and Canada are renewing calls for Black history to be mandated in provincial curricula.
They say that despite a more than 200-year presence on the Prairies, the absence of Black people from Prairie history textbooks is of concern.
“To represent a fuller story of Canadian history means that Black people should be and need to be included in those stories,” said Natasha Henry, a historian, curriculum consultant and president of the Ontario Black History Society.
“When these stories are not included, it really continues to perpetuate the idea of Black people being the other, of Black
