Welcome to episode 11 of Season 3 of the I Am Black History podcast brought to you by InTheBlack:Canada (ITBC) and DeeP Visions Media. I interviewed Valerie Jerome over Zoom while travelling west last summer. We managed to travel to Vancouver a few weeks later and Valerie invited us to her home and made us an amazing brunch. She also shared photos and other archival materials of her and her brother Harry's time in the Canadian Championship Games, the 1959 Pan-American Games, and the 1960 Rome Olympics. Valerie is a former teacher, political activist, and public speaker and shared with us the struggles her family dealt with when moving into. a North Vancouver community.
