{"id":13984,"date":"2025-02-06T01:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T06:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=13984"},"modified":"2025-02-06T01:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T06:01:56","slug":"african-heritage-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/african-heritage-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"African Heritage (Black History) Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February is African Heritage Month (Black History) in Canada. TDSB recognizes this month with the theme Lift Every Voice. This theme encourages collective strength and unity among the African\/Black diaspora. Black Canadians have been largely ignored for their contributions as key parts of our history. A celebration of vibrant and diverse cultures, experiences, perspectives, contemporary realities, contributions, and achievements helps us reflect on those contributions and celebrate diversity. Now is a great time to explore the amazing Black Canadians who have contributed so much to our communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Books:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/allenbyparents.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5b5527a684a32a91614edc1de&amp;id=d1d95495a2&amp;e=3afd798314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40 books by Black Canadian authors to read<\/a> | CBC Books<\/p>\n<p><strong>Podcast:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/allenbyparents.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5b5527a684a32a91614edc1de&amp;id=16ad79fff8&amp;e=3afd798314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quirks &amp; Quarks: Black in science special<\/a> | CBC Radio<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more? Here is a calendar with links to famous Black Canadians, one for each day of the month: <a href=\"https:\/\/allenbyparents.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5b5527a684a32a91614edc1de&amp;id=67a5e25879&amp;e=3afd798314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TDSB Black History Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February is African Heritage Month (Black History) in Canada. TDSB recognizes this month with the theme Lift Every Voice. This theme encourages collective strength and unity among the African\/Black diaspora. Black Canadians have been largely ignored for their contributions as key parts of our history. A celebration of vibrant and diverse cultures, experiences, perspectives, contemporary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dei"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13985,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions\/13985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}