Animated series profiles brave women, including Canada’s first Black female lawyer

Animated series profiles brave women, including Canada’s first Black female lawyer

EDMONTON — Jo-Anne Henry says her mother never described herself as a rebel.
"I don't ever remember my mom saying, 'I was the first Black woman lawyer in all of Canada,'" Henry said in a phone interview from her home

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