Hogan's Alley: The Black Vancouver History Nobody Taught You

A Black History Month episode that turns into the best history lesson this show has recorded. K-Ski and Kavawon host Aisha and Miselta of the Hogan's Alley Society — the organisation working to rebuild Vancouver's displaced Black neighbourhood. Aisha went from UBC marketing student to Hogan's Alley staffer and explains what it is like to ask "where are the Black people?" in this city. Miselta came through kinesiology and sport into community engagement. Together they lay out the whole arc: the Memorial Project, the working group, the viaducts that went through the neighbourhood and who pays when they finally come down, the garden, Nora Hendrix Place, and the 100+ social housing units planned for Main and Union — designed, they say, like a baobab tree. The history runs wider than most listeners will expect: hip-hop as a griot tradition, the Cross Bronx Expressway running the same playbook in New York, Black soldiers who defended Victoria, and Salt Spring Island. And it lands on something practical — the Community Land Trust, a Black cultural centre, the Blackathon, and what listeners can actually do. Jimi Hendrix's grandmother lived here. Apache was recorded here. Most people in Vancouver do not know either. Recorded at B-Side Radio, Vancouver BC. 0:00 Back from UBC: radio and cyphers 1:10 2026 plans and a different year 2:09 Dip Clothing: 25 years in Vancouver 3:57 Copping gear on Delancey Street 4:42 Hip-hop as a griot tradition 5:46 Mas B on drums and shared ancestry 7:46 Introducing Hogan's Alley Society 9:18 Meet Aisha: betting on yourself 10:59 UBC student to Hogan's Alley staff 13:51 Unfiltered truth for the youth 15:54 Memorial Project to Hogan's Alley 18:28 Cross Bronx Expressway, same playbook 20:06 FIFA 2026 and the Downtown Eastside 20:53 Black history on Vancouver Island 24:43 Oral history and why isolation hits 29:07 The viaducts: who pays, and when 30:58 The garden and Nora Hendrix Place 32:57 Main and Union: 100+ housing units 36:46 Miselta on community engagement 39:14 Sports and the team concept 41:37 Five-year vision: the Land Trust 43:50 A Black cultural centre 48:54 The Resurgence Planting and Party 52:15 The co-share collective 55:08 BC Black history in schools 59:14 Upcoming: the Cultch and Blackathon 1:02:24 bside radio's 2026 expansion 1:04:04 The Nora Hendrix house events 1:10:22 Juneteenth with the longshoremen 1:14:16 Aisha's hopes and how to help 1:19:03 Divide and conquer vs the table 1:22:01 Blackathon: Black youth and AI 1:23:54 World Cup and the African diaspora 1:29:29 The Vancouver hip-hop docuseries 1:33:23 Nardwuar stories and reconnecting 1:35:38 Community archives and closing