Aly Ndiaye is putting the finishing touches on an exhibition he has curated, Triomphe: The Story of Gloria Clarke Baylis — running until March 8 at Centre Sanaaq — to mark the 100th anniversary of Black History Month and the 35th in Montreal. Through a melding of archives, photos, illustrations and personal effects, this retrospective offers a captivating glimpse into the life of Clarke Baylis, a nurse from Barbados who went on to become a civil rights pioneer and successful entrepreneur in Quebec.

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(Clarke Baylis, who died in 2017, was the mother of Frank Baylis, who made a spirited run last year in the federal Liberal leadership race.)

A sombre Fred Anderson is soaking up the exhibit and congratulates Ndiaye.

Ndiaye and Anderson are Black History Month representatives who have become fast friends over the last few years here. But while the two come from totally different worlds and generations, they share the same vision and hopes for the future.

In addition to being a curator and historian, Ndiaye, 46, is an acclaimed hip-hop artist in Quebec best known through his alias Webster. Before moving to Montreal, he was born and raised in Quebec City.

Anderson, 78, hails from Hattiesburg, Miss., where he became a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the Mississippi Delta, Alabama and Southwest Georgia. He came to Montreal as a Vietnam War resister in 1966 and lived here under........

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