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This RPM Chart showcases Dianne Brooks in the 85th spot for the top albums. Her album “Some Other Kind Of Soul” was her first album she had released as a solo artist, and had eventually gone on to release 2 more solo albums before becoming a backup…

This RPM Chart from 1966 showcases Jackie Shane in the 95th spot for her song “Any Other Way” 3 years after its initial release, which had been rereleased. This is the only song of hers that appears in the RPM Weekly ever. “Any Other Way” is her most…

This is a clip of RPM Magazine featuring the top songs playing in major cities across Canada, and featured Dianne Brooks playing in two different cities. When a song was not popular enough to be in the national top 100 list but still was popular…

A ceremony within the RCMP to acknowledge and applaud their new female colleagues.

This essay in the book Leading the Way: Black Women in Canada, it shows the impact of Jennifer Hodge de Silva. In this entry it talks about her life, from her early days of schooling to her works leading to her death in ‘89. This piece shows that…

someone in physical slavery can be freed by another man, someone who has more power over them but the mental can be only freed by oneself. If you don't free your mind you are bound to keep reliving through the cycle mentally because the mind is one's…

A quote from John Fitch talking about the conditions of how hot it was in areas of the steel mill. These conditions describe where Black Caribbean workers were put to work for low pay at DISCO, under the racial notion that they're more equipped to…

Cape Breton flag edited with the West Indies in the middle.

This is an image of Jackie Shane from the late 1960s in what would have been generally considered masculine clothing at the time, despite her feminine identity. Here, Jackie is shown presenting herself confidently as something outside of the norm,…