{"id":75789,"date":"2022-03-08T11:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/?p=75789"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:38:26","slug":"celebrating-bgc-black-leaders-meet-bgc-dawson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/celebrating-bgc-black-leaders-meet-bgc-dawson\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating BGC Black Leaders &#8211; Meet BGC Dawson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BGC-Dawson-Youth-Programs.jpg\" alt=\"BGC-Dawson-Youth-Programs\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW245856397 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW245856397 BCX0\">Helping young people overcome barriers since 1959, BGC Dawson provides safety, connection, and representation to Black youth in their communities, who live and embody Black culture, the Caribbean diaspora, and Canadian history.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW245856397 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW245856397 BCX0\">T<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW245856397 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW245856397 BCX0\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW262390800 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW262390800 BCX0\">hrough community work, presence, individual and shared experiences, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW262390800 BCX0\">Club staff\u00a0actively engage all youth that attend BGC Dawson in the practice of dismantling anti-Blackness and embracing Black humanity and liberation.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW262390800 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Thank you BGC Dawson for playing such an important role for the Black community in Montreal and for helping all youth learn how they can play a role in working against systemic discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BGC-Dawson-Peter-Sherwin-scaled-2.jpg\" alt=\"BGC-Dawson-Peter-Sherwin\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/686024623?h=038f6c560f\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helping young people overcome barriers since 1959, BGC Dawson provides safety, connection, and representation to Black youth in their communities, who live and embody Black culture, the Caribbean diaspora, and Canadian history. Through community work, presence, individual and shared experiences, Club staff\u00a0actively engage all youth that attend BGC Dawson in the practice of dismantling anti-Blackness [&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":[89,850,851,848,75],"class_list":["post-75789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bgc-news","tag-bgc-clubs","tag-bgc-dawson","tag-black-culture","tag-celebrating-bgc-black-leaders","tag-opportunity-changes-everything"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75789","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=75789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}