De Costa and Le Jeaune stand as two of the earliest recorded figures in Black Canadian history—names that surface in the archives long before Canada was even Canada. Their stories take us back to a time when this land was known as British North America, a place still being shaped.

Through them, we catch a glimpse of what life looked like for people of African descent in the 1600s —navigating identity, survival, and status in a colonial world that hadn’t yet fully codified slavery, but was already laying its foundations.

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In this episode Jay and I are diving into The Color of Fear, a 1993 documentary that brings together a group of men from different racial backgrounds for an unfiltered, and often uncomfortable, dialogue about race in America.

Please watch The Color of Fear: https://youtu.be/hyOl52YxHW4?si=g1I61IcTZciCeLRA

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For this milestone episode, we’re turning the lens inward—getting as personal as it gets. This is who we are… literally. In this episode we’re breaking down our ancestral DNA—what we found, what surprised us, and how it connects to the bigger story of our Black identity in Canada.

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