{"id":1032,"date":"2020-02-26T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:40:07","slug":"remembering-stories-of-refugees-of-african-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2020\/remembering-stories-of-refugees-of-african-descent\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Stories of Refugees of African Descent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Remembering Stories of Refugees of African Descent\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to African refugees, and the ways they have contributed to Canadian society, that story is yet to be fully documented and to be visible,\u201d says Mohamed Duale, a PhD candidate at&nbsp; York University and LERRN researcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Refugees of African who found asylum in Canada have brought culture, economic prosperity and&nbsp; other valuable skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s important to tell their stories not just on Black History Month, but every month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.ca\/news\/left-behind-the-importance-of-remembering-refugee-stories-during-black-history-month\/\">Read the full story here<\/a> via UNHCR Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen it comes to African refugees, and the ways they have contributed to Canadian society, that story is yet to be fully documented and to be visible,\u201d says Mohamed Duale, a PhD candidate at&nbsp; York University and LERRN researcher. Refugees of African who found asylum in Canada have brought culture, economic prosperity and&nbsp; other valuable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-articles"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}