Canada tends to see itself as a place of freedom and liberation but like the United States, the country has close ties to slavery and anti-Black racism. Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard, shown here with a ...

At midnight on March 6, 1957, Crown subjects in the Gold Coast celebrated the end of British colonial rule by naming themselves citizens of a new nation-state, the Republic of Ghana. As Howard W.

Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard, shown here with a grandson, has long pushed for the nationwide designation of Emancipation Day “because it means Canada is finally recognizing and owning its full history.” ...