DJ R$ $mooth celebrates career as host of longest-running Black music radio show in Atlantic Canada [VIDEO]
The longest-running Black music radio show in Atlantic Canada recently celebrated its 25th year anniversary on the airwaves.
Ryan Somers, aka DJ R$ $mooth, has been hosting $mooth Groove$ on CKDU 88.1 FM since 1998. The show, which airs every Sunday from 5pm to 8pm, broadcasts out of the Student Union Building on the campus of Dalhousie University.
“I always think of the show as like a home base, like no matter what’s going on… most people can hear me that Sunday,”
Black and African Diaspora degree program at Dalhousie may be first in Canada, professor says
A Black history professor at Dalhousie University says a proposal to expand the university’s Black and African Diaspora studies minor program into a full degree could make it the first program of its kind in Canada.
The current minor program started online in 2017 within the faculty of arts and social sciences. Isaac Saney, chair of the Black and African Diaspora Studies Degree Major Committee, is now working with other Black professors at Dalhousie on the final proposal for the full degree program.
“Then the idea came out,” Saney said. “Why don’t we have a major where somebody can come in and graduate with a degree in Black and African Diaspora Studies?”
‘Exemplary artist’ David Woods receives honorary doctorate from Dalhousie University [VIDEO]
“All of these stories had a consistent theme of an individual or an event of significance that had been ignored by history and by an accident had been brought to my attention, and through my passion and commitment to create an excellent work I was allowed to become a conduit for their public recognition to give them a second life.”
Dr. Barb Hamilton-Hinch explores the stories of loss and grief in the Black community
“We don’t think about loss with land, we don’t think about loss with education and culture, we don’t think about the impact of … post- traumatic slave syndrome, and how we’ve been impacted by that,” Dalhousie professor says in episode of new web series.