Paul Boateng was appointed as a cabinet minister on 29 May 2002 and he was the first Black Cabinet minister - 110 years after the first Black MP was elected. Paul Y. Boateng was born in 1951 to Kwaku and Eleanor Boateng, the Gold Coast ( Ghana), West Africa. He was educated at the Ghana International ...

Writer, Bola Agbaje returns to the Royal Court in a new play Belong: a co-production with Tiata Fahodzi. Election lost, speeches made and controversy stirred – Kayode’s hiding. He’s not even answering the door to the cleaner, and Rita is not going to start getting out the Hoover in her designer heels. Escaping the political heat ...

George Polgreen Bridgetower  The talented African violin Prodigy George Polgreen Bridgetower was born in Biala, Poland on February 29, 1780. His father, the African Prince was married to a German woman who is named in English documents as Mary Ann Bridgetown. They had two sons, who both became fine musicians. The younger brother, "Fredrick; " was ...

The Montreal Royals were a Minor League professional baseball team located in Montreal Quebec, Canada that existed from 1897–1917 and from 1928–60 as a member of the International League and its progenitor, the original Eastern League. The Royals are most famous as the top farm club (Class AAA beginning in 1946) of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers ...

The mission of Black Theatre Workshop is: to encourage and promote the development of a Black and Canadian Theatre, rooted in a literature that reflects the creative will of Black Canadian writers and artists, and the creative collaborations between Black and other artists. BTW aims to promote and produce Black theatre that educates, entertains and ...

John Ware (c. 1845 – 12 September 1905) was an African-American and later Black Canadian cowboy, best remembered for his ability to ride and train horses and for bringing the first cattle to southern Alberta in 1882, helping to create that province's important ranching industry. Ware was born into Slavery in South Carolina. After the American ...