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Claire Prieto Receiving Her Lifetime Achievement Award
This image is from 2010, and it is Claire Prieto receiving her lifetime achievement award. This closing Imaged truly shows how far Black Canadian Filmmakers and Directors have gone. They were from not being recognized, underfunded, underappreciated,…
Dining at Twenty Miles an Hour
An illustration of the inside of a train car from 1887. Rows of white passengers are served food by a Black porter.
Book Of Negroes
The Book of Negroes is one of the most important records of Black migration to British North America. Created at the end of the American Revolution, it documents the names, ages, and physical descriptions of around 3000 Black Loyalists. Much like the…
Black Loyalists Arriving At Sierra Leone
This watercolour represents the arrival of Black Loyalists in Sierra Leone, an act of defiance following the disappointments of life in Nova Scotia. For those who left, the journey was more than just an escape, as it meant a chance to build a…
Excerpt From Film And The City: The Urban Imaginary In Canadian Cinemabook
Film and the City: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinemabook is a book that explores the Canadian urban perspective on screen. This book has many different sections about Clement Virgo's film Rude (1995). The book talks about Rude being the first…
Student Protest in front of the U.S. Consulate on University Avenue, Toronto for Civil Rights Workers in Alabama.
Police are tossing students into a pile near Toronto Avenue at the U.S. Consulate. The demonstration was in support of the civil rights workers in the state of Alabama.