Podcast appearances and mentions of Viola Desmond

Time to learn about Canadian history! In this first Canadian Heritage Minute(s) we learn about: Why Canada has united in rage-patriotism What "elbows up" means And, most importantly, the story of iconic Canadian heroine Viola Desmond! References: Canadian History Ehx episode about Viola Desmond 'Elbows up' rallying cry evokes memories of Mr. Hockey by Alastair Steele, CBC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevon Stewart is the director of District 6 of the United Steelworkers union. In November 2024 he was elected the international union's first Black district director. Plus: the LabourStart report about union events. And celebrating in song Viola Desmond. RadioLabour is the international labour movement's radio service. It reports on labour union events around the world with a focus on unions in the developing world. It partners with rabble to provide coverage of news of interest to Canadian workers.

When Viola Desmond decided to go see a movie in New Glasgow while her car was repaired, she changed Canadian history and helped start the country's civil rights movement. Support: patreon.com/canadaehx Merch: https://www.ohcanadashop.com/collections/canadian-history-ehx Donate: buymeacoffee.com/craigu Donate: canadaehx.com (Click Donate) E-mail: craig@canadaehx.com Twitter: twitter.com/craigbaird Threads: https://www.threads.net/@cdnhistoryehx Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cdnhistoryehx YouTube: youtube.com/c/canadianhistoryehx Want to send me something? Craig Baird PO Box 2384 Stony Plain PO Main, Alberta T7Z1X8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1946, Viola Desmond was forcibly removed from a theatre in New Glasgow, NS for refusing to move from whites-only section.

Canada Month continues! This time Katie tells us about the civil rights activist Viola Desmond. She made history when she refused to leave her seat in the Roseland Theater. This Black Nova Scotian challenged Canadian segregation. Today she's on the $10 bill. Learn about this amazing woman on today's episode. 

In this episode co-produced with Munk School Black Students Association (MSBSA), Adhithya and Dan focused on four monumental Black Canadians: Lincoln Alexander, Jean Augustine, Desmond Cole, and Viola Desmond. Following this, Faith and Amie from MSBSA interviewed Kofi Hope about his accomplishments and impacts in Toronto. Tune in for more empowering stories and join us in celebrating Black History Month! 

As the province celebrates Black History Month, the Ontario government has announced that the exceptional contributions of Black Canadians who helped shape Canada will now be a mandatory part of the Canadian history curriculum for grades 7, 8 and 10. We welcome high school educator and president of The Ontario Alliance of Black School Educators, Deborah Buchanan-Walford.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nova Scotia poet George Elliot Clarke is in for a very busy month. He's coming back to this province for three events. One is centred around his latest literary work. He's also debuting a song about Viola Desmond, and he's hosting an evening called "Five Poets Breaking Into Song, #11: Saltwater Spirituals and Uppity Blues."

Last night, the Toronto International Film Festival opened the Viola Desmond Cinema, 77 years after her arrest in a New Glasgow movie theatre. The honour extends to her sister and long-time champion, the late Wanda Robson. TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey tells us about the unveiling.

Emma Ansah reports on Canadian civil rights activist Viola Desmond and her contribution to the freedom of her community. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africandiasporanews/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africandiasporanews/support

Rebecca and Tara chat about their latest reads, including a few titles to celebrate Disability Pride Month, celebrated annually in July. Also, Teach Media, an educational media company and publisher of graphic novels, reached out to Rebecca and is offering their followers a special 20% discount at their online bookstore for No Reason to Apologize with the code: CanLit20.  The discount will be active through August 14, 2023.  https://shop.teachmag.com/ Rebecca: Wise Little One: Learning to Love and Listen to My Inner Child by Jana Wilson Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures by Ivan E. Coyote Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Open Throat by Henry Hoke Mazebook by Jeff Lemire No Reason to Apologize: The Resilient Legacy of Viola Desmond by W.L. Liberman, Andrea Scott, Tajliya Jamal (illustrator) Tara: A Real Somebody by Deryn Collier The Centaur's Wife; Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc Wonder by R.J. Palacio Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan E. Coyote Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist by Holly Hogan Bad Cree by Jessica Johns  Canada Reads American Style is now an affiliate of Bookshop.org, where your purchases support local independent bookstores.  Our curated shop includes books discussed on the podcast.  When you purchase a book through our virtual bookshop, a portion of the sales benefits a local bookstore, as well as the podcast, which helps offset the costs of the show. 

Viola Desmond and her sister Wanda Robson are together again, in the Camp Hill Cemetery. Find out how they came to be buried together when we speak with the woman who championed the idea, former Lieutenant Governor Mayann Francis. Plus hear from Wanda Robson's widower.

Viola Desmond was a Black Canadian businesswoman and civil rights activist who became a symbol of the struggle against racial segregation in Canada. One of the most famous incidents in her life occurred in 1946, when she was arrested for refusing to leave a whites-only section of a movie theater in Nova Scotia.   Share your thoughts in the comments, like and subscribe and watch the video on the tube @DAPShow

"I told them he's non-verbal! ... I tried to hold him!": autistic teenage son, bloodied and tased by Peel Regional Police; Cameron Bailey on naming TIFF theatre for Viola Desmond.

This week, Kate talks about a treasure that was found found in the attic of a Haliburton County home from 1888 (an invitation to a Valentine's Day dance in 1888) and connections that can be made. Plus Paul talks about the background of Viola Desmond, the discrimination she suffered at the Roseland Theatre in Nova Scotia, and the malicious prosecution that followed. Kate Butler is the Director of the Haliburton Highlands Museum. Paul Vorvis is the host of the Your Haliburton Morning Show 7 - 9 a.m. Fridays on Canoe FM 100.9 and streaming on your devices. Haliburton County is in cottage country about 2 1/2 hours north of Toronto. You can contact us at timewarp@canoefm.com

In this episode, we highlight incredible Black, Canadian women. We begin with Anne Clare Cools who was the first Black Senator in Canada and in North America. Michaelle Jean was the first Black Governor General of Canada. Rosemary Brown was the first Black women elected to a Canadian legislature. Viola Desmond defiance sparked the modern-day civil rights movement in Canada, and she was the first Canadian women to appear on a Canadian banknote. We end with Violet King who was the first Black woman lawyer in Canada.

Kandyse McClure's filmography is populated by a staggering range of characters. On the critically acclaimed and beloved Battlestar Galactica, Kandyse portrayed Anastasia “Dee” Dualla, a passionate woman who fought, loved, dreamt, and, ultimately, succumbed to despair. As Nicte Batan in the third and final season of Motherland: Fort Salem, she wrestled with her character's past as a terrorist while forging unexpected alliances. As Sam in Neill Blomkamp's wildly entertaining horror film Demonic, she embodied the stuff of nightmares; and as Golden Eyes in the genre-defying feature film Sew the Winter to My Skin – a role for which she was nominated for an African Movie Academy Award – she somehow managed to speak volumes about the impact of oppression on humanity without actually speaking many words at all. Other recent work includes GenZeroes (the cutting-edge project championed by friend of the pod Aleks Paunovic), Charmed, Limetown, the bonkers Netflix series Ghost Wars, and a standout role as Viola Desmond, the entrepreneur who challenged segregation in Nova Scotia in the 1940s, in an iconic Heritage Minute. The projects and roles are wildly different, but the thread that unites them is the humanity, authenticity, and conviction that Kandyse brings to each one. In this riveting episode of the YVR Screen Scene Podcast, Kandyse reflects on her journey from South Africa at 11 years old, grieving Dee, moving into her “villain era,” and dancing in her trailer.Content warning: This episode contains frank talk about suicide. If you're thinking about suicide or are worried about a friend or a loved one, the Canada Suicide Prevention Service is available 24/7/365 at 1.833.456.4566. You can also find links to international suicide prevention and mental health support services in the footnotes for this episode on our web site. You matter. You're not alone.Episode sponsor: UBCP / ACTRA

Holly speculates about how one article about Josephine Cochrane got so many details wrong. Tracy then talks about the details of Canada's currency featuring Viola Desmond. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Desmond was convicted after refusing to leave her seat in a segregated movie theater in Nova Scotia in 1946. But she also established the first beauty salon for Black women her area, and founded a beauty school for Black women.   Research:  Bingham, Russell. "Viola Desmond". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 16 April 2021, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/viola-desmond. Accessed 09 August 2022. Bishop, Henry V. “Viola (Davis) Desmond (b. 1914 — d. 1965): Stand For Justice.” Nova Scotia Archives. https://archives.novascotia.ca/desmond/background/ Canadian Museum for Human Rights. “One woman's resistance: Viola Desmond's Story.” https://humanrights.ca/story/one-womans-resistance Flynn, Karen. “Remembering Viola Desmond.” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. 11/2021. https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/remembering-viola-desmond?language_content_entity=en "Fred Christie Case (Christie v York)". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 06 June 2020, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/fred-christie-case. Accessed 12 August 2022. Henry, Natasha. "Racial Segregation of Black People in Canada". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 08 September 2021, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/racial-segregation-of-black-people-in-canada. Accessed 10 August 2022. Parks Canada. “Viola Desmond National Historic Person (1914-1965).” https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/culture/clmhc-hsmbc/res/information-backgrounder/Viola_Desmond Reynolds, Graham and Wanda Robson. “Viola Desmond: Her Life and Times.” Roseway Publishing. 2018. Robson, Wanda. “Sister to courage : stories from the world of Viola Desmond, Canada's Rosa Parks.” Wreck Cove, N.S. : Breton Books. 2010. The Halifax Chronicle. “Dismisses Desmond Application.” 5/19/1947. page 14. Via Nova Scotia Archives. https://archives.novascotia.ca/desmond/archives/?ID=28 "Viola Desmond." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, Gale, 2022. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631009722/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=1380ef8c. Accessed 8 Aug. 2022. Walker, Barrington. “The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays.” Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2012. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

$1000 Minute Advantage (0:07), 80's and 90's things that kids today just don't get (0:47),the least favourite part of your day(4:50)  $1000 Minute (10:40), Viola Desmond musical (14:02)

In this special historical episode Mimí, Martha, and Ciera share stories about three incredible women of color to commemorate Juneteenth. Join us as we discuss the amazing lives of Audre Lord, Alice Allison Dunnigan, and Viola Desmond. We dive into their lifetime achievements, as well as their astrological placements, in an effort to highlight historical figures of color that we don't often learn about. This episode in brought to you all with only positive intentions, pushing through some discomfort in order to shed a light on these extraordinary women. We welcome any and all constructive criticism as well as education where we might have gotten it wrong. Tune in to learn how we can see some great achievements through astrology!

The Down Home Podcasts explores the life of one of Canada's civil rights icons, Viola Desmond. Also in this episode Jay talks with his Aunt Jean Clayton about her memories of Viola.         Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/viola-desmond-bio-1.3886923 https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/viola-desmond https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/remembering-viola-desmond?language_content_entity=en https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/explore/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/a-noteworthy-woman/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-explosion-viola-desmond-wanda-robson-disaster-killed-1.4393272 #ViolaDesmond     #civilrightsicon #novascotia #canada #jimcrow

In 1946, nine years before Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, African Nova Scotian entrepreneur Viola Desmond made history in a New Glasgow Movie Theatre with her own act of civil disobedience. Her image now adorns the $10 bill, but Viola's bravery and accomplishments were largely unknown during her lifetime. Hear Viola's life story in vivid detail from one of the people who knew her best, her youngest sister Wanda Robson. Interviewed in 2013 at the age of 87, author and activist Wanda Robson reflects on Viola's life, and her own efforts to honour her sister's legacy; leading to Canada's first posthumous pardon. Months after induction to the Order of Nova Scotia, Wanda Robson passed away in February 2022, having left an incredible legacy of her own.

Afro History in Canada I never knew today we talk about Viola Desmond Black woman who made own mark not only in Black history through civil rights activism but through Black entrepreneurship. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-lost-african/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-lost-african/support

The African Nova Scotian Music Association hosted an online event this call called Lift Every Voice for African Heritage Month. It included a video of Zamani performing a song she wrote in honour of civil rights hero Viola Desmond. The song was commissioned by the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo.

Nova Scotians have been remembering the life of activist Wanda Robson this week, after she passed away at the age of 95 last weekend. She was the youngest sister of the late civil rights activist Viola Desmond. Freda Potter knew Wanda for over 30 years, and she shared a few memories about Wanda in a letter.

Chris talks with award-winning playwright Andrea Scott who shares what it was like to bring iconic activist Viola Desmond to life within her play. She talks about how she worked to humanize Viola by drawing from her own experiences as a Black woman to help flesh out her real-life character's emotional world and examine why heroes are often only appreciated in hindsight.

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A drama about civil rights icon Viola Desmond by Andrea Scott. Viola is a young woman with big dreams. She was born to a white mother and a black father in 1914, uncommon at the time, so her very existence is controversial. Not willing to settle for the traditional role women were expected to play, Viola tries her hand at teaching but faces racism and unwanted sexual advances from her superiors. She finds her passion as a beautician and creator of makeup for Black women and wrestles with her desire to be an entrepreneur and her duty as a new wife.

This is Black History month - a time to expand our knowledge about historical black figures that helped shape Canada. This morning we're kicking of a series focusing on the contributions of famous Canadian figures with a black history expert and member of The Order of Canada, Robert Small. This week we're focusing on two important figures from Eastern Canada, Viola Desmond and Sam Langford.

A drama about civil rights icon Viola Desmond by Andrea Scott. Viola has the magic touch of making other women look their best, and her beauty products for Black Women are selling like hotcakes. She's an independent woman travelling all over Nova Scotia selling goods when her car broke down in New Glasgow one fateful day in 1946. She decides to take in a movie to pass the time and inadvertently sits in the ”‘all-whites” section of the theatre, changing the course of her life and history.

A drama about civil rights icon Viola Desmond by Andrea Scott. After getting arrested and spending the night in jail, Viola is confronted with the gut-wrenching decision to fight her conviction. Should she risk her popular business to make a fuss? And what will happen to her already strained marriage? But Viola knows there's more to be gained than the right to sit at the front of a movie theatre. And she's about to discover the consequences for being brave enough to put up a fight against systemic racism.

Actor Charlie Day catches up with “The View” co-hosts about his early days in New York City and what it was like working on his first rom-com film “I want You Back” alongside Jenny Slate. In Hot Topics, the co-hosts discuss a report of some Trump White House records given to the Jan. 6 House select committee being torn apart and put back together. Plus, “The View” recognizes the first day of Black History Month by spotlighting Canadian civil rights activist, Viola Desmond.

Nine years before Rosa Parks galvanised the American civil rights movement by refusing to sit at the back of a bus, Viola Desmond sparked the mobilisation of a Nova Scotian community when she refused to be moved from a 'whites only' section in the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Her actions inspired generations of Black Canadians in not only Nova Scotia but across the entire country who fought and won the right to be seen as equals in an unequal Canadian society. While at the time Viola's struggles were nearly forgotten today she is considered a person of historical significance and is the first Canadian woman to ever appear on a Canadian dollar bill. Get add free content at Patreon! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

À l'occasion de la journée internationale des droits des femmes, Oxfam Québec Université Laval s'associe avec l'association "Féministes en mouvement de l'Université Laval" (FEMUL) pour discuter des luttes de cinq femmes inspirantes du Québec et du Canada: Rose Fortune, Viola Desmond, Thérèse Casgrain, Mary Two-Axe Earley et Lucy Maud Montgomery. --- Suivre les activités de la FEMUL: https://www.facebook.com/femulaval/ Suivre les activités d'Oxfam Québec Université Laval: https://www.facebook.com/OxfamULaval Pour aller plus loin: Brève histoire des femmes au Québec - Denyse Baillargeon

This week we cover the amazing woman on your $10 bill. Viola Desmond, who fought against segregation and discrimination in Canada. She's one of the most notorious civil rights cases in Canadian history. Join us as we dive in.

Pearleen Oliver was a great crusader for civil rights in Nova Scotia and stood side-by-side with Viola Desmond. But fewer people know Pearleen Oliver's story. Her son and the publisher of a new book on her legacy join us on Information Morning.

Viola Desmond was against segregation and sat down for her rights.

She's often called "Canada's Rosa Parks" but there's even more to Viola Desmond's story that I wish more Canadians knew about. None of us know about her story following the historic event involving her. #BlackHistoryMonth

We all know about Viola Desmond as the "Canadian Rosa Parks," but few know about Carrie Best (a civil rights leader), who brought her story to national attention. #BlackHistoryMonth

This week Marj and Sam chat vegan chicken sandwiches, the hardships of being single after watching Bridgerton, and the story of Viola Desmond (whose face Canadians know from their $10 bill)!

GUEST: This week Rob, Kevin and Iain welcome Pastor Lenny Duncan. Lenny has been everything from high school dropout, drug dealer, sex worker, street corner poet, hitchhiker, dharma bum, small-town drifter, seminarian, political activist, father, pastor, lover, public theologian, and writer. Now he thrives in the Pacific Northwest where he is the Pastor of the Jubilee Collective. “Jesus is anti-racist and loves queer, trans, two-spirited people too,” says Pastor Lenny. With that in mind, his commitment to antiracism to naming racist structures in the church and the wider community is a commitment to the Way of the Cross. He's calling now on ‘white folk to do white folk work' and dismantle White Supremacy. On the heels of his wildly successful book - Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Church in America, Pastor Duncan is about to release his second book. The United States of Grace: A Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope ~ is a compelling, heartbreaking, inspiring, gutting, giving, prophetic word of hope for a country facing a great challenge. Pastor Duncan has the guys in stitches and in tears. He's brutally honest and non-apologetic for the truth he boldly tells. BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Each week in February the guys will highlight another Black Canadian Hero. Iain shares his admiration for Viola Desmond. Lenny Duncan talks about Uncle Jimmy Baldwin. IT'S NOT A LIE OF YOU BELIEVE IT:This week Iain talks about his baseball skills... or did he? https://unitedstatesofgrace.com/ This Podcast was recorded on February 17th, 2021. 

Join Joe and Shawn as they discuss some NFL news as well as a deep dive on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers heading into the Super Bowl. They discuss Roger Goodell's thoughts on the lack of minority hiring, Brett Favre's "thoughts" about the Deshaun Watson saga as well as Danny Amendola's spicy take on who is the true architect of the "Patriot Way". Then they do a deep dive into the Bucs season, playoffs and how they can win the Lombardi Trophy. In their final thoughts, Shawn discusses the Canada's Rosa Parks, Viola Desmond, and the lack of Black History in Canada's education curriculum. Joe discusses Robert Kraft's philanthropic use of his Private Jets regarding the procurement of the vaccine as well as sending vaccinated health care workers to the Super Bowl. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Support this podcast

Thursday, February 4: Concerns of racial profiling after a Black man is jailed for six days before charges are stayed; an independent review sheds light on how dozens of people died from COVID-19 at a Winnipeg long-term care home; and, Nova Scotia symbolically repays the fine Viola Desmond faced for taking a stand against racial segregation.

Thane Calder & Mark Dolynskyj explore which rules are fun to break and why.

A Dove Tale: Tasia, Blue and Liz share the story of Viola Desmond: a Black Canadian self-made millionaire and activist. Ms. Desmond opened her own beauty salons, beauty schools and sold her own hair care products. What sounds like a horror movie opener: one night Ms. Desmond's car broke down in an unfamiliar town so she decided to see a movie while she waited for her car to be fixed. Learn how Ms. Desmond and Carrie Best (Ep. 11) intersect in this story of heroism and social justice!

A Dove Tale: Tasia, Blue and Liz share the story of Viola Desmond: a Black Canadian self-made millionaire and activist. Ms. Desmond opened her own beauty salons, beauty schools and sold her own hair care products. What sounds like a horror movie opener: one night Ms. Desmond's car broke down in an unfamiliar town so she decided to see a movie while she waited for her car to be fixed. Learn how Ms. Desmond and Carrie Best (Ep. 11) intersect in this story of heroism and social justice!

Block A: Viola Desmond, “Canada's Rosa Parks”; Block B: Ellie as an advocate for women and on the value to mentoring to girls and young women via Big Sisters.

On this episode of the Chop Up: Music Chop: We grieve the death of 90's/2000's r&b and talk about the new 2016 projects from J. Cole, Childish Gambino, Drake, and others. Excellence Chop: The spotlight is on 32 year old Nigerian woman, Dr. Foyekemi Ikyaator, who opened her own ER in Houston, TX. Also, Viola Desmond, a black woman from Nova Scotia who picture is being placed on the Canadian $10 bill.  Social Chop: #LeaveItIn2016 We share our top 10 list of things we dont wanna see in 2017...and a couple of things we do.  NEW MUSIC- DevRock- War Bwoi Strap- Humming Bird