It’s called the “Vancouver Black Library,” and the UBC student behind the project said it represents a lot more than just books.“It definitely happened sooner than I could have imagined,’ said Maya Preshyon, Vancouver Black Library’s founder.Rewind to the middle of winter, Preshyon told Global News about her vision of a library that would tell the story of Vancouver’s Black community.
Jimi Hendrix’s grandmother lived there and musicians like Nat King Cole and Louis Armstrong would eat at its restaurants when they came through town. “It was kind of the tenor of the time about how things were viewed in inner cities as blight. They viewed ethnic enclaves as something to get rid of, not to embrace,” said Pete Fry, a Vancouver city councillor.
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