An Edmonton woman says the Alberta government is using her grandmother as a token of Black history and wants references to her removed from a draft new elementary school curriculum. She knows of nowhere else where her contributions to Alberta history are recorded. Agnes Leffler Perry Chaney and her granddaughter, Julienne Sévère, when Sévère was a child. Sévère wants the Alberta government to remove references to her grandmother from the draft K-6 curriculum, saying her inclusion is tokenistic. She said Leffler Perry Chaney will stay in the curriculum because the government wants to include the stories of people who will inspire children.

Source: CBC News June 02, 2021 03:56 UTC