Celbrate The Black Community
It’s been a long week. It’s time for some GOOD NEWS!
“If knowledge is in fact power, then it is our inherent duty as human beings to educate ourselves. What better way to educate and inform than to highlight the underreported achievements we [the black community] accomplish every day.”
Lesa Lakin Co-Editor of
Good Black News
WHAT CAN YOU DO IN 4 MINUTES?
Read these articles and feel better about life!
Only have 4 minutes – check out our highlights
Got more time – read more than one
1. Why we founded Good Black News
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2. Harriet Tubman Back on Track to Grace the $20 Bill
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3.Black Canadians on inspiring the next generation of queer leaders
Global News
4. Black Lives Matter Fredericton launches Black history database
References
Global News – 3 Black Canadians on inspiring the next generation of queer leaders – By Ashleigh-Rae Thomas
Global News – UBC Okanagan students celebrate Black History Month with online events – By Sydney Morton
Good Black News – Harriet Tubman Back on Track to Grace the $20 Bill
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson
CBC – Black Lives Matter Fredericton launches Black history database
GOAL
Good News Friday will lift our spirits and take us into a great weekend!
WHO?
Anyone who pays attention to current affairs cares about the environment, social services, democracy, fairness, the truth…
SOLUTION
Every Friday, instead of focusing on the negative and on the things we want to change, we focus on what’s already good in the world and spend time learning and sharing this news.
Good Black News seeks to educate and spotlight the positive, inspiring, and amazing things Black people do on the daily. Perhaps with accurate, properly-framed information, we can all enact a seismic change.
Lesa Lakin Co-Editor of
Good Black News.org
Highlights
Harriet Tubman Back on Track to Grace the $20 Bill
[T]he Biden administration committed in late January to speed up the process to get Tubman on the $20 bill as the Obama administration sought to do by the year 2020 (the plan was not carried out by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin).
As this nation [USA] continues to reckon with so much of its unexamined history, it is heartening to report that according to The Washington Post, Harriet Tubman has been inducted into the Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame.
3 Black Canadians on inspiring the next generation of queer leaders
It’s Black History Month and across Canada, Black queer Canadians have been leading the way to not only create change in their spaces, but also inspire the next generation of queer leaders.
Dr. Dryden on coming out initially, and where she is now:
“I have less of a hesitation now, in terms of being fully myself and I also have less of a hesitation in any fear I had of losing people. And because family is so important, we may not be as vocal, like claim identity of queer, gay or trans, even though we are queer, and gay and trans, because we fear losing family. Now I’m just claiming all who I am. And this is who I am.”
Jill Andrew – Toronto MPP:
But the number one thing we need to do to celebrate Black queer history, Black queer futures and Black queer now is to name ourselves.
Cicely Belle Blain – Diversity and Inclusion Consultant
“For me, being part of Black Lives Matter Vancouver was a huge pivotal moment in finding connection, because it was sort of the first time that both Blackness and queerness were centered and were the focal point, as opposed to having to sacrifice or choose one or the other.
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Black Lives Matter Fredericton launches Black history database
Black Lives Matter Fredericton, the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University have launched a new resource for educators to help them teach Black history in New Brunswick classrooms.