Canada
Meet the Haitian woman who became Canada’s first Black female interventional cardiologist
Alexandra Bastiany, Canada’s first Black woman interventional cardiologist, was raised in Montreal by a Haitian mother who pursued a career in nursing and a father who worked as a chemist. Thus, Bastiany’s ambition to become a doctor has been present since she was a young child. She told Heart and Stroke, “Both my parents had…
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2024 Paris Olympics: Nigeria’s women’s basketball team makes history advancing to quarter finals
Nigeria’s women’s basketball team has made history as the first African nation...
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The interesting story of how war veterans built Oro, one of the first Black settlements in Canada
The culture in Upper Canada for prospective land owners in the early 1800s was for them to...
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How Stephen Smith, once the richest Black man in U.S., used his wealth to free thousands of African Americans
One of his notable legacies is getting 15,000 people of African descent to move to Canada after...
