BBPN Receives Federal Funding to Launch a Landmark Program Across New Brunswick
The BBPN ACCESS Initiative Pilot Program (BAIPP) advances entrepreneurship and economic empowerment for Black women, youth and entrepreneurs province-wide.
Same Aspirations, Different Paths: BBPN Celebrates International Youth Day 2026
For International Youth Day, BBPN brought its YETAP cohort together for a Saturday session that ran from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., part online, part in person, and, according to Sheila Kazvini, entirely worth the trip.
What African Women Entrepreneurs in New Brunswick Are Asking For
Ambition was never the problem in the room. That’s the biggest thing Djomo Aaron took away from BBPN’s Women in Business and Profession Community Town Hall in Saint John, held in partnership with Black Moms NB and led by representative Mrs. Olatian.
A Living History Lesson: BBPN Youth Visit the New Brunswick Black History Society
Some of the best learning doesn’t happen in a classroom. In August, BBPN’s YETAP leadership group, including Sheila Kazvini and Djomo Aaron, visited the New Brunswick Black History Society (NBBHS) in Saint John, and came back with two different stories from the same afternoon.
Black Girls Gather: A Day of Connection, Leadership, and Inspiration in Fredericton
Representing BBPN at Black Girls Gather in Fredericton, Sanaba Kante expected a professional event. What she
found was something closer to a masterclass in community.
Bringing Black Women in Business & Profession (BWIP) to Bathurst
In July, BBPN’s Black Women in Business and Profession (BWIP) program took its Town Hall series to Bathurst, New Brunswick, a smaller and more rural community where BBPN was building new connections. Sanaba Kante was there to help make it happen.
More Than a Festival: BBPN’s Afrofest Moncton Experience
Some events you attend. Others, you experience. For BBPN’s Oreoluwa Orokotan, Moncton Afrofest was the second kind.
Representing BBPN at New Brunswick’s Provincial Consultation for the International Decade for People of African Descent
This summer, BBPN was in the room where New Brunswick’s Black community is helping shape real policy change.