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Podcast: Zoomer Week in Review
Episode: Jean Augustine on Black History Month & Jamie Golombek on Divorcing During COVID
Description: INTERVIEW ONE: JEAN AUGUSTINE
It was December 1995 when the House of Commons officially recognized February as Black History Month in Canada, after unanimously passing a motion introduced by Jean Augustine, who two years earlier was the first African-Canadian woman elected as MP, representing the Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore.
After deciding not to seek re-election in 2006, she moved on to new challenges, which to this day involve addressing systemic barriers and racial inequalities in education through the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora at York University.
INTERVIEW TWO: JAMIE GOLOMBEK
COVID-19 has put a lot of pressure on couples...