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Uchenna Edeh

Uchenna Edeh is a Montreal born and raised artist of Nigerian descent. His goal is to translate his love for African and Caribbean history and mythology into empowering visual imagery. He is also committed to bring to light the hidden or overlooked figures of Black, and particularly Black Canadian history.

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Savion Glover, born November 19, 1973, in Newark, New Jersey, is an American tap dancer, choreographer, and actor...

Kwame Ture was a prominent Pan-African revolutionary who served as the Honorary Prime Minister of the Philadelphia chapter...

Powhatan Beaty was a Black Union soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, actor, playwright, and civic figure whose life linked the Civil War struggle for emancipation with the cultural and political life...

“If one can, anyone can, all you gotta do is try” Faith Ringgold was an American painter, writer,...

David Walker was a Black abolitionist, writer, and political activist whose uncompromising attack on the Maafa made him...

Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940–41), a sequence of 60 paintings, depicts the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North between World War I and...

“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC...

“You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution. You can jail a liberation fighter, but...

On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., for the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This monumental event placed immense pressure on President John F....

Hale Aspacio Woodruff (August 26, 1900 – September 6, 1980) was an African-American artist known for his murals,...

“This story is not about what happened to him, it’s everything to do with how he chose to...

“I hope it warms the heart of those who see them and know that beauty still exists in life, we just sometimes choose not to see it. Children live a life...

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Uchenna Edeh is a Montreal born and raised artist of Nigerian descent. His goal is to translate his love for African and Caribbean history and mythology into empowering visual imagery. He is also committed to bring to light the hidden or overlooked figures of Black, and particularly Black Canadian history.

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