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Link to the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX2mAUxaafY In a 2003 talk show interview for drag queen Crystal Lite’s television show “The Crystal Lite Show”, produced by PrideVision.TV, Michelle Ross and Chris Edwards, two legendary drag…

The Coloured Women's Club of Montreal (CWCM) was established in 1902 by seven African-Canadian women whose husbands worked on the railways as sleeping car porters, and was modelled after the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC). This…

Full link to the educational video: https://youtu.be/JvjH3cGV9QI
The Colour of Immunity is a 1991 educational video made by Black CAP (The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention) to educate Black Canadians on the AIDS crisis and preventative measures…

The Code Noir was one of the most crucial legal documents in shaping the system of slavery throughout the French colonial Empire, including New France, which would later become Canada. Written and issued under the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King…

How the Charter of Rights and Freedoms upholds racist stereotypes and subconscious laws working against minorities, creating an unbalanced legal system and court procedures.

The Canadian Criminal Code of Canada, published in 1892, specifically highlights the charge of vagrancy