{"id":9526,"date":"2024-01-12T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/?page_id=9526"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:13:11","slug":"black-excellence-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/black-excellence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated January 28, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Resources provided by Ms. B. Papapanagiotou (Teacher-Librarian)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blackexcellenceday.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Excellence Day website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/beingblackincanada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Being Black in Canada (CBC)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notable Figures:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Interactive:\u00a0<a id=\"OWA02ace9f1-84c2-1cf7-bad1-043b146e2c6d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news2\/interactives\/black-history-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Historical Black Canadians You Should Know<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Illustrated:\u00a0<a id=\"OWA43da7c7f-fdb2-fe6a-8269-b411f3cc351c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/community\/bhm-illustrations-1.5902351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">Black Changemakers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"OWA8c2df072-85e8-a48d-02ce-d77b8c6c2a2f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chatelaine.com\/living\/trailblazers\/black-canadians-making-change-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\">Trailblazers Making Change Now<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Video:\u00a0<a id=\"OWA5849b121-c601-7efb-9cb2-9f287709158b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ie0xWYRSX7Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"5\">Heritage Minutes: Viola Desmond<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Video:\u00a0<a id=\"OWA118a736c-f902-a404-773c-94fc5670b274\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G_APUcDKSmw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\">Women in Canadian History: Rosemary Brown<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Black History:\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"OWA804aa7a7-f1ab-51c5-1386-1f2b63673ddb\" href=\"https:\/\/bcblackhistory.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"7\">BC Black History.ca<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"OWA26fd9aa9-921e-4ece-b07d-0483ffe539f2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/community\/black-on-the-prairies-launch-1.5987363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"8\">Black on the Prairies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Education Resources:\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"OWAdd6e1f09-d57f-b99d-434f-63f1aef73842\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bctf.ca\/classroom-resources\/professional-development-teaching-resources-search?keyword=antiracism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"9\">Social Justice Resources (BCTF)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"OWAeba91e56-ce4e-1cb1-e3ce-2bbfe2853873\" href=\"https:\/\/challengeracistbc.ca\/teachers-corner.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"10\">AOEC<\/a>\u00a0(Anti-Oppression Educators Collective PSA)<\/li>\n<li><a id=\"OWA6ddf9735-7318-ff68-41ee-84508b3edaf8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unwrittenhistories.com\/a-guide-to-online-resources-for-teaching-and-learning-about-black-history-in-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"11\">Unwritten Histories<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"OWA0daa5fb3-0fec-a9de-21aa-d4999d79e0c4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canadashistory.ca\/education\/kayak-in-the-classroom\/black-history\/black-history-educational-package\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"12\">Black History Educational Package<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"OWA6a724a98-e0f7-57bb-9c0d-9a1c0f55be6d\" href=\"http:\/\/education.historicacanada.ca\/en\/tools\/40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"13\">Historica Canada: Black History in Canada<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"OWAaaea8378-0c5b-053b-73ff-18b828856e75\" href=\"https:\/\/bcblackhistory.ca\/learning-centre\/education-guides-and-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"14\">Education Guide: BC Black History Awareness Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated January 28, 2026 Resources provided by Ms. B. Papapanagiotou (Teacher-Librarian) Black Excellence Day website Being Black in Canada (CBC) Notable Figures: Interactive:\u00a0Historical Black Canadians You Should Know Illustrated:\u00a0Black Changemakers Trailblazers Making Change Now Video:\u00a0Heritage Minutes: Viola Desmond Video:\u00a0Women in Canadian History: Rosemary Brown Black History: BC Black History.ca Black on the Prairies Education Resources: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/black-excellence-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Heritage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9526"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10324,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9526\/revisions\/10324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/south-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}