BLK: An Origin Story (2022)
BLK: An Origin Story (2022)



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Cast & Crew.

Sudz Sutherland
Creator / Director / Writer / Executive Producer

Jennifer Holness
Creator / Director / Writer / Executive Producer

Maya Annik Bedward
Director / Writer

Maya Bastian
Writer

Khalilah Brooks
Associate Producer

Craig Fleming
Line Producer

Haydn Wazelle
Producer

Kosa Akaraiwe
Black Loyalist

Abdul-Shakur Alawi
Minister David George

Abigail Amsterdam
Jamaican Maroon

Osa Atoe
Black Loyalist

Addison Becker
Loyalist

Patrick Marlon Bender
Labourer

Dashawn Lloyd Blackwood
Jamaican Maroon

Al Braatz
Rioter

Sarah Bransfield
Loyalist Wife

Alex Nathaniel Campbell
Child

Adrian Alexie Edwards
Jamaican Maroon

Andrew John Groome
Rioter

Robert James Hedge
Loyalist Soldier

Renisha Henry
Female Slave

Gabriel Hudson
Black Loyalist

Martin Huss
Black Loyalist

Stephen James Ingram
Loyalist Soldier

Jahnelle Jones
Black Loyalist
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This TV Show Is About.
Wiki.
BLK: An Origin Story is a Canadian documentary television series, which aired in 2022 on History. Created, directed and produced by Sudz Sutherland and Jennifer Holness for Hungry Eyes Film and Television, the series explores Black Canadian history.
The four episodes explored the initial migrations of Black Loyalist, Black Refugee and Jamaican Maroon communities to Nova Scotia in the 18th and 19th centuries; the history of the Little Burgundy neighbourhood in Montreal; the history of the Hogan's Alley neighbourhood in Vancouver; and the story of John "Daddy" Hall, a free-born Black and Mohawk Canadian man from Owen Sound who was captured by the American military when he fought in the War of 1812, and forced into slavery for 13 years until escaping and returning to Canada.
The series premiered on February 26, 2022.