{"id":9620,"date":"2022-03-14T13:18:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/?post_type=nouvelles&#038;p=9620"},"modified":"2022-03-14T13:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:18:33","slug":"the-afromusee-honours-dr-dorothy-w-williams","status":"publish","type":"nouvelles","link":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/news\/the-afromusee-honours-dr-dorothy-w-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"The Afromus\u00e9e honours Dr. Dorothy W. Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afromusee.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Afromus\u00e9e<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Montr\u00e9al\u2019s newest museum, honours and bears witness to Qu\u00e9b\u00e9c\u2019s Black history, people, traditions, and living culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">For its first exhibit,\u00a0 the museum shines a light on the work of Montr\u00e9al historian, educator, and author Dorothy W. Williams,<\/span><\/strong> with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/dorothy-w-williams-actrice-de-changements-changemaker-tickets-290757673027\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">L&#8217;afrique Montr\u00e9alaise: Dr Dorothy W. Williams, actrice de changements<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The show\u00a0 includes fragments from her life and work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Williams is highly respected in her community. A professor at Concordia University, she\u2019s a fifth-generation Montrealer who has worked for four decades to bring Black Canadian stories to light. <strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">According to Statistics Canada, Black Canadians report more than 200 different ethnic or cultural origins<\/span><\/strong> in the 2016 census. 26.6% of Black Canadians live in Qu\u00e9b\u00e9c.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Williams has published two books about the Black history of Montr\u00e9al, an educational resource, and numerous articles and presentations. She also recently consulted on the CBC and BET television series <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/gem.cbc.ca\/media\/the-porter\/s01\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Porter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a look at the history of the primarily Black train car porters of the 1920s, who were poorly paid, overworked, and subject to racist behaviour from their white customers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Catherine Fisher, blogger<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Attendees at the Afromus\u00e9e grand opening, L&#8217;afrique Montr\u00e9alaise: Dr Dorothy W. Williams, actrice de changements. Credit: Afromus\u00e9e social media<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9622,"parent":0,"template":"","categorie-de-nouvelle":[61],"class_list":["post-9620","nouvelles","type-nouvelles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-de-nouvelle-culture-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles\/9620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nouvelles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nouvelles"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categorie-de-nouvelle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvf.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-de-nouvelle?post=9620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}