UNB's History at a Glance: Annual Black History Month Lecture

Year	Name of Lecturer	Title of Lecture
2017	Mary McCarthy	“Shades: A black Woman’s Narrative of Death and Segregation in New Brunswick”
2018	Afua Cooper	“Slavery and the Construction of Black People as Property: The Legacy”
2019	Funke Aladejebi	“Blackness at the Intersections: Examining History and Black Identity in 20th Century Canada”
2020	Barrington Walker	“The Honourable Leonard Braithwaite: Black Canadians and Civic Belonging in Postwar Ontario”
2021	Melanie J. Newton	“'This Island’s Mine by Sycorax my mother’: Afro-Indigeneity, Gender and Survival in the Lesser Antilles”
2022	Dierdre Cooper	“Why Black History Matters in American Medicine”
2023	Melissa Shaw	“Reckoning Unambiguous Anti-Black Racism: The Interwar Years in Canada”
2024	Christopher Taylor	“Roots & Routes: Blackness Beyond May 25, 2020”
2025	Claudine Bonner	“Addendum to a Love Letter- Narratives from Africville”

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