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Trains of Thought: A Tribute to Stanley Grizzle

Trains of Thought: A Tribute to Stanley Grizzle

By: Black Community Resource Centre
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Trains of Thought: A Tribute to Stanley Grizzle explores the legacy of Stanley Grizzle (Griz-zel): sleeping car porter, civil rights advocate, and community leader. Created by the Black Community Resource Centre in collaboration with Library and Archives Canada, this youth-driven series highlights the overlooked history of the porters, their struggles, resilience, and the movements they helped ignite. Each episode blends research, reflection, and storytelling to carry these voices forward and connect their lessons to today.

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  • The Pipedream of Moving Up North
    Oct 24 2025

    In this episode of Trains of Thought, host Khaya Salmon explores the emotional and cultural realities of Caribbean-Canadian immigration through intimate conversations with her mother, Jackie, and best friend, LaTonya. Inspired by the stories found in Stanley Grizzle’s personal archive, Khaya reflects on what has and hasn’t changed since the days of the sleeping car porters and their families who migrated north in search of opportunity. Through shared memories, moments of culture shock, and reflections on belonging, this episode offers a heartfelt look at the weight and wonder of building a life far from home and what it means to carry one’s roots across borders.

    Music Credit:

    Source: FreePik

    Title: Sun Loom - Nonak

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    29 mins
  • Pilgrimage in a Fragmented Space
    Sep 26 2025

    On this episode of Trains of Thought, Jephte Joseph explores pilgrimage as more than a journey and sits down with Andrew Jackson. A search for solace in spaces once sustained by determination, moulded to help us face reality, yet haunted by the urge to relive a past grown blurry. What happens when the place we seek slips away, leaving us scattered and returning only to fragments? In those fragments, we find not wholeness, but traces that remind us some returns can never be complete, yet still shape how we carry the past within us. Pilgrimage in a Fragmented Space delves into these themes, inspired by the stories of Black sleeping car porters, revealing the layers of immigrant life, displacement, (fractured) Black communities, and expropriation. Music/SFX Credits: Source: Blue Dot Session Title(s): Blue Arcadia, Gin Boheme, Set the Tip Jar, Color Country, and WestDesert Source: Epidemic Sound Title(s): Wait in Line and Beach, Sands, Kids Playing, Waves 01

    'Copyright Small Axe Films Limited.'

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    57 mins
  • Postcards from the Road: Black Porters, Untold Journeys & the Stories We Carry
    Sep 26 2025

    On this episode of Trains of Thought, Kristian Rouse-Robinson sits down with Marty Lewis, diversity-in-travel advocate, content creator, and author of The ABC Travel Green Book.

    From chance airport meetings to global adventures, Marty has become one of the leading voices of today’s Black travel movement, making sure Black travelers are seen, supported, and celebrated.

    Together, they dive into Black travel, the spaces we’re reclaiming, and the often-overlooked stories of Black Canadian history.

    Inspired by her great-grandfather’s letters from his days as a sleeping car porter, Kristian connects past and present to explore the Black travel movement, the legacies we’ve inherited, and the ones we’re building right now.

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    27 mins
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