The Board invited Sadie Kuehn the Co-Chair of the Vancouver Police Department’s African Descent Advisory Committee to present about Black History month at the beginning of the February Board meeting. Ms. Kuehn is a long-time Vancouver resident, educator, writer, policy developer, managing editor and social and economic justice activist in Canada and Internationally. You can hear her presentation here at 14:48. Sadie engaged her audience with a question and answer session on important facts related to the contribution of the Black community. Below is her Question and Answer sheet. How many could you answer?
Recommended Books
Go Do some Great Thing
The Black Pioneers of British Columbia Reissued in 2022 by Crawford Killian with a forward by Dr. Adam Rudder
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The Skin We’re In
by Desmond Cole
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The Sum of us: What Racism Costs Everyone, and How We Can Prosper
by Heather McGhee
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Saltwater City –An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver
by Paul Yee
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Obasan
A novel by Joy Kogawa which chronicles the experience of Japanese Canadian’s during the second World War
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Chanting Denied Shores: The Komagata Maru
by Tariq Malik
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