CBC and the online streaming service BET+ are co-creating the new drama series The Porter, about the world's first Black union created by railway workers from Canada and the United States. It includes Aml Ameen (I May Destroy You), Mouna Traoré (The Umbrella Academy) and Ronnie Rowe Jr. (Pretty Hard Cases). A CN porter checks on a child in a sleeping car in 1947. A porters' union, the Order of the Sleeping Car Porters, was formed by four men in Winnipeg in 1917. WATCH | Sleeping car porters and Black immigration to Manitoba:CBC Archives (2000): Sleeping car porters and black immigration to Manitoba CBC News Manitoba 9:29 In this piece from 2000, CBC reporter Sandra Batson covers immigration of black communities to the Prairies and the struggles they encountered in Canada.

Source: CBC News April 16, 2021 17:03 UTC