Inspiration

Inspiration and Empowerment for the Future Generation – Hear 2 Help You

Inspiration and Empowerment for the Future Generation This week’s show takes some time to relax and enjoy the readings of Karee Shea Walker a writer, poet, artist and mother living here in Toronto. Kareative Interludes has created a resource aimed to support family, empowerment, character, confidence, courage while instilling inspiration for children entering and experiencing the literacy process. Click here …

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Kike Ojo

One Vision One Voice: Changing the Child Welfare System for African Canadians – Hear 2 Help You

One Vision One Voice: Changing the Child Welfare System for African Canadians There are some serious issues that do exist within our community, and this week we have the honour of sitting down with Kike Ojo, who is currently the Project Manager for the initiative, One Vision One Voice: Changing the Child Welfare System for African Canadians. Kike provides leadership …

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The Real McCoy, The Jamaican Maroons, and The Black Loyalists – African Canadian History Lessons on Hear 2 Help You

We couldn’t go through African History Month without sitting down with this man. Meet Rainford Cornish, a Jamaican immigrant living in Canada for 28 years, who has dedicated his life to teaching history at Central Peel Secondary School. Come learn about the Maroon’s, The Black Loyalist and “The Real McCoy.”

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Black Sun Comics

The Importance of African Super Heroes, Afro-Futuristic Edition – Hear 2 Help You

Dave sits down with Bruce Dewayne and Kelvin Nyeusi Mawazo from Black Sun Comics to talk about Afro Futurism and African Super Heroes following the release of Marvel’s Black Panther. Click here to learn more about Black Sun Comics. wonderplugin_video iframe=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbnrvb-GcYk&t=41s” videowidth=600 videoheight=400 keepaspectratio=1 videocss=”position:relative;display:block;background-color:#000;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;margin:0 auto;” playbutton=”http://hear-2-help.com/wp-content/plugins/wonderplugin-video-embed/engine/playvideo-64-64-0.png”  

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Freddy "Freeze" Lopez

Toronto Hip Hop Culture; Youth Empowerment, Culture, and Movement – Hear 2 Help You

Toronto Hip Hop Culture; Youth Empowerment, Culture, and Movement Today we sit down with the co-founder of the Toronto Hip Hop Cultural Centre, Freddy “Freeze” Lopez, and discuss how this self-funded, non-profit organization based in Toronto has been able to run such successful music programs out of Artscape Young place The Toronto Hip Hop Cultural Centre engages, inspires, and empowers …

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Literature, our Children and the Developing Society – Hear2Help You

Literature functions as a major socializing agent especially in the educational forum. It tells students who and what their society and culture values, what kind of behaviors are acceptable and appropriate, and what it means to be a decent human being. Hear 2 Help You understands that African-American students cannot find themselves and people like them in the books they …

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