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Growing up as a Black kid in '60s Montreal | Black Life: Untold Stories

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Growing up as a Black kid in '60s Montreal | Black Life: Untold Stories

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“You must be better.” That’s what Brenda Dash’s father emphasized to her and her siblings, because he knew the colour of their skin was going to be held against them. Looking back on her experience growing up as a young Black kid in Montreal in the 1960s, Dash says she realized her father was right. Watch Black Life: Untold Stories on CBC Gem.

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