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A magazine article discussing Dianne Brooks as a musician, and touches on her rise to stardom

excerpt from the Mail Star showing how a professor at the University of Toronto was being brought to Halifax to study the rehousing of Africville families

This was a booklist made by Makeda Silvera titled “Becoming Visible: The legacy of Stonewall” (1992-1994) that contained both lesbian and gay writings. Silvera’s compilation of queer literature meant that numerous queer voices had the chance to be…

Recollection of Mattie Mayes' decedents

Cape Breton Island outline

Article in Marcus Garvey's, The Black Man mag detailing His speech "The work that has been done" he told at Menelik Hall, Sydney, Nova Scotia. Speaking to Sydney U.N.I.A members.

This article from 1988 written for Rites magazine, a queer publication, highlights the struggle for Black Canadian cases of AIDS to be taken seriously when they began to appear in major cities like Toronto. At the time, case numbers were relatively…