{"id":75682,"date":"2022-02-25T13:05:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T18:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/?p=75682"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:41:11","slug":"celebrating-bgc-black-leaders-meet-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/celebrating-bgc-black-leaders-meet-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating BGC Black Leaders &#8211; Meet Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/studio.jpg\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">For two years, Cole has been a youth leader and role model at BGC St. Anthony &amp; Area Club in Newfound &amp; Labrador.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Living in a small community with a population of only 2,500 and growing up as an only child in a white, single-parent home, Cole experienced barriers learning about his history and culture. The local school in St. Anthony has a total of 250 students, with only 2% of them identifying as Black. This can be challenging not only for Cole, but also for other Black youth growing up in their community.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Whether he is at his BGC Club as a staff or volunteer, Cole always takes the opportunity to share his experiences as a Black youth in a predominantly white community. Children at the Club look up to him and he answers their questions around his experiences, actively helping others who grow up in St. Anthony overcome barriers.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Cole is one of many leaders at BGC Clubs across the country helping others overcome barriers\u2014turning his experience into learning opportunities and making a difference in the lives of others at his Club and in his community.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/basketball.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/683014871?h=45756e495b\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For two years, Cole has been a youth leader and role model at BGC St. Anthony &amp; Area Club in Newfound &amp; Labrador.\u00a0 Living in a small community with a population of only 2,500 and growing up as an only child in a white, single-parent home, Cole experienced barriers learning about his history and culture. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[867,81,868,869,75],"class_list":["post-75682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bgc-news","tag-bgc-st-anthony","tag-black-history-month","tag-celebrating-black-leaders","tag-no-more-barriers","tag-opportunity-changes-everything"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}