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Windsor West Indian Association
Cultural Center 2410 Central Avenue, Windsor, ON The Artists of Colour Celebrating Black History Month Art on Display |
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Northstar Cultural Community Centre
255 A Erie Street Windsor Ontario |
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North American Black Historical
Museum
277 King Street, Amherstburg, ON
Museum
277 King Street, Amherstburg, ON
dennis K. smith
Artist of the Month of February 2015
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Writer Mitzi Kay Jackson
I invites you to join her at The Open Mic Poetry Event to be held Friday Feb. 13th at 7pm at Marygrove College on 8425 West McNichols Detroit MI. 48221. The event will take place on the 4th floor of the Liberal Arts Building. Mitzi has been one of The Artists of Colours' featured guest poets' who inspired us with her work at our last two Poetry and Song events. |
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Express Holding Black History Month
Tribute on February 22nd
Express Holding Black History Month Tribute on February 22nd
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(WINDSOR, ON)It's Black History Month and the Windsor Express are honouring three members of the Northstar Cultural Community Centre prior to their 2:00pm game on Sunday, February 22nd against the Mississauga Power.
The tribute will focus on women's basketball stars, Pat Harrison and Madeline Chase and multi-sport standout, Fred Thomas.
Harrison and Chase were members of the Club 240 Women's Basketball Team, who received team recognition in 2014 from the Windsor-Essex County Sports Hall of Fame.
The team played through the mid-1960's through the early 1970's and won nine provincial and six Eastern Canada championships.
Thomas participated in basketball, baseball, football and track and field in high school and would later score 2,059 points in his four years at Assumption College, third on the NCAA basketball all-time list.
In his professional career, Thomas played for the Harlem Globetrotters, the Canadian Football League's, Toronto Argonauts and a farm club of Major League Baseball's, Cleveland Indians, where he became the first black man to play in the Eastern Baseball League.
Thomas has been inducted into the Afro-American Hall of the Fame (1994), the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame (1995) and the Windsor-Essex County Sports Hall of Fame (1981) and is the individual whom Fred Thomas Park was named after.
Fred Thomas will be represented by his brother, George Thomas and his son, Greg Thomas.
Regular tickets can be found at the TekSavvy box office inside the WFCU Centre, online at www.wfcu-centre.com or www.windsorexpress.ca.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(WINDSOR, ON)It's Black History Month and the Windsor Express are honouring three members of the Northstar Cultural Community Centre prior to their 2:00pm game on Sunday, February 22nd against the Mississauga Power.
The tribute will focus on women's basketball stars, Pat Harrison and Madeline Chase and multi-sport standout, Fred Thomas.
Harrison and Chase were members of the Club 240 Women's Basketball Team, who received team recognition in 2014 from the Windsor-Essex County Sports Hall of Fame.
The team played through the mid-1960's through the early 1970's and won nine provincial and six Eastern Canada championships.
Thomas participated in basketball, baseball, football and track and field in high school and would later score 2,059 points in his four years at Assumption College, third on the NCAA basketball all-time list.
In his professional career, Thomas played for the Harlem Globetrotters, the Canadian Football League's, Toronto Argonauts and a farm club of Major League Baseball's, Cleveland Indians, where he became the first black man to play in the Eastern Baseball League.
Thomas has been inducted into the Afro-American Hall of the Fame (1994), the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame (1995) and the Windsor-Essex County Sports Hall of Fame (1981) and is the individual whom Fred Thomas Park was named after.
Fred Thomas will be represented by his brother, George Thomas and his son, Greg Thomas.
Regular tickets can be found at the TekSavvy box office inside the WFCU Centre, online at www.wfcu-centre.com or www.windsorexpress.ca.
