Events & Gatherings

Community Screening: We Are the Roots: Black Settlers and their Experiences of Discrimination on the Canadian Prairies

This Community Screenings of We Are the Roots: Black Settlers and their Experiences of Discrimination on the Canadian Prairies is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.

Thursday, February 13, 7 PM
Film: We Are the Roots: Black Settlers and their Experiences of Discrimination on the Canadian Prairies
Director: Jenna Bailey, David Este, and Deborah Dobbins
Year: 2018
Runtime: 67 minutes
Country: Canada
Rating: N/R

We Are the Roots is a documentary that tells the stories of African American immigrants who settled in Alberta and Saskatchewan in the early 1900s, with stories from 19 descendants of original settlers, as they moved north to escape slavery, persecution and racism in America. Once in Canada, these families would then experience more discrimination, both in Edmonton and in the rural communities where they settled.