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Photo taken at St. Philip's African Orthodox Church in Whitney Pier. Part of a larger network of churches that came to be in New York in the 1920s, originated by George Alexander McGuire from the belief that Black Episcopalians should have their own…

An article about Contrast the Black run newspaper started in response to the Sir George Williams affair.

A mural depicting musicians who had mad a significant impact in Toronto, such as Dianne Brooks and Jackie Shane. This is incredibly important as the mural recognizes how important Black musicians are to the history of music in Toronto.

This was a photo taken of Afua Cooper, who helped build queer-inclusive Black feminist circles in Toronto in the 1980s-90s. She is best known as a poet and a scholar of Black Canadian history, but she helped lay the foundation for queer safe spaces…

In her journal article, Blacks on Canadian Railways, Agnes Calliste breaks down the times of Black men working as sleeping car porters into three periods. The first is from 1917-1939. Black men were excluded from railway unions, so the Order of…

This page from a journal article, falls into the very start of the Black Canadian Directing movement. The civil rights movement had an undeniable impact on Canada, and it enforced new motives of the Black identity. This is seen through the emergence…

In this clip from an interview with Fil Fraser. He is speaking about the radio and how it shaped his life. He realized that he might have limitations as a Black Canadian, but it did not stop him from pursuing what he loved. He hoped that because no…

Sharrers (left) escorting Dustin Byfuglien to the penalty box

“Two” was a Gay magazine that had ran in Toronto from 1964 to 1966. It had covered many aspects of queer life in Toronto, with it being published in Scarborough. The magazines had typically featured pictures of naked men in sections called…