‘We still have a long way to go’
February is Black History month in Canada and members of the community came together at the Chatham Civic Feb. 1 to raise a new flag commemorating the event. Sharing the duties were Mayor Darrin Canniff; Buxton National Historic Site & Museum curator Shannon Prince; South Kent Coun. Anthony Ceccacci; Chatham Coun. Marjorie Crew; Jackie Bernard and Whitney Belovicz of the Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History; Samantha Meredith, executive director of the Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society & Black Mecca Museum; Steven Cook, curator of the Henson Museum; and Michelle Robbins, assistant curator at the Buxton site. The month is filled with numerous activities throughout Chatham-Kent at all three Black history sites.
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