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When poet Thandiwe McCarthy began planning his project on Black New Brunswick history, he started thinking about who else he could bring on.
A photographer, historian, and poet helped document the stories of 15 families
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Historian Mary McCarthy says encouraging the families to tell their own stories was an important part of the project. (Aniekan Etuhube/CBC)
When poet Thandiwe McCarthy began planning his project on Black New Brunswick history, he started thinking about who else he could bring on.
“And so I built a fabulous team of best friends and family to really help bring this project to what it needed to be to tell the story that had to be told,” McCarthy said.
“It’s a small team, but together we have come up with a project that has become an exhibition, a book, a presentation and a festival, and I couldn’t do it without any of them.”
He and his team have spent the past three years working to make Black New Brunswick history a fixture in the North American narrative through a project called Still Here.
They visited 15 Black New Brunswick families that go back generations to document and share their stories.
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