Black History Month items

Media are nodding to Black History Month: Radio-Canada profiles Frantz Saintellemy of the Université de Montréal, the first Black university chancellor in Quebec. CBC is going big on the Black Changemakers theme all across Canada. Locally they interview sports coach Jamil Springer and Anglo rights leader and onetime politician Marlene Jennings as well as a kids’ feature about a girl championing natural Black hair. CBC promises more pieces on Black people of influence throughout the month.

Metro looks briefly at the programming for Black History Month and at several notable Black historical figures and the paucity of Black figures in the city’s toponymy.