When Canada Post unveiled abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd’s new postage stamp, her kin stood tall and proud. To mark Black History Month in February, more than a dozen descendants gathered recently ...

Sculpture of Mary Ann Shadd, North America's first Black female publisher, unveiled in Windsor, Ont. "I think it's beautiful," said Adrienne Shadd, a family member from Toronto who was involved in ...

The Shadd family, who date to the 1700s in Wilmington, included Abraham Doras Shadd, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, who among her many accomplishments was the ...

The company's search logo honors Mary Ann Shadd Cary ... In 1850, her family moved to Canada after the U.S. passed the Fugitive Slave Act. Three years later, Shadd Cary launched her newspaper ...

Since Delaware prohibited Black education, the Shadds moved to Pennsylvania where Mary Ann attended a Quaker boarding school until 1839. Shadd’s family was involved in the Underground Railroad.

9 (UPI) --Google is celebrating American-Canadian newspaper editor and publisher, journalist, teacher, lawyer, abolitionist and suffragist Mary Ann Shadd ... The Shadd family then moved to Canada ...

This is first time in Canadian postal history that a father and daughter outside the British Royal Family each have appeared on a stamp, Canada Post officials said. The Mary Ann Shadd stamp ...

Mary Ann Camberton Shadd (later Shadd Cary) was a pioneering Black educator, among her many roles. In the 1840s, Shadd taught at a segregated school for African American children in Norristown ...

Adrienne Shadd said Mary Ann's legacy of "fearlessness" inspires the family today. "She didn't seem to shy away from criticizing and calling out leaders of the community, whether they were white ...

Following the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required any captured slaves to be returned to their masters, Mary Ann and the whole Shadd family moved to Canada. From Canada ...

A Canada Post stamp featuring Mary Ann Shadd, a ground-breaking abolitionist and newspaper publisher who ran a school in Windsor, was unveiled in Chatham, Ont., on Tuesday. (Meg Roberts/CBC) Shadd was ...