On this week's episode, we had the pleasure of hosting two lead cast members from The Porter, a Canadian series that tells the story of the first Black labour union in North America, which will air starting tonight (Feb 21, 2022) on CBC and later in the year on BET+. Those cast members are Ronnie Rowe Jr. and Mouna Traoré!

Set in Montreal in the early 1920s and inspired by real events, The Porter follows train porters Junior Massey and Zeke Garrett, Junior’s wife Marlene, and others as a tragedy in the community sets them on starkly different paths to a better life. While Junior takes advantage of a broken system to pursue money and power in gambling and bootlegging, Zeke fights the railway to change the system from within by unionizing the Black porters, forming the first ever Black union that North America had ever seen.

The series aims to reframe Black Canadian history by featuring the fullness and diversity of the Black diaspora -- including those who came from small Caribbean states and made a big impact on North America. The groundbreaking series will tell stories that we seldom learn about in Canada: from pan-Black Canadian history, colourism, Black excellence and ambition, to the birth of North America's first Black labour union

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Music provided by Toronto's very own, B.ONLOCATION.

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