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The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture, is a book that explores the history of Black cinema and direction. It goes over the start of the Black film movement and how it was coined as “cinema of duty” due to the…

This is a photograph taken by Yucho Chow (a very well known Chinese-descended photographer who operated a store in Vancouver Chinatown) in 1944 of a woman named Emily Aida and her grandchildren. Chinatowns were hubs of multiculturalism, whether as a…

This quote by Ellis Hooks is in response to an incident at the local school. The Black Canadians have been in the Canadian Prairies for as long as many other settlers and yet they are not being treated as such. Ellis Hooks is determined to let them…

Matthew Elliott was a wealthy white Loyalist who lived in Southwestern Ontario, and one of the richest and most merciless slaveowners in British North America. This historic illustration, made decades after the abolition of slavery in the British…

This letter informed Ethelbert Bartholomew that he could no longer be a medical student due to his race. Apparently, Kingston's lack of a "coloured population" made "adequate training" impossible, showing how they would do anything just to block…

In 1905, Black women in Montreal founded the Coloured Women’s Club in response to widespread racial discrimination, including the denial of adequate health care during the smallpox epidemic. As Canada’s oldest Black womens institution, their work…

This biographical anthology entry places Edward Mitchell Bannister within a broader community of notable Black Americans in the late nineteenth century. It provides a rare contemporary acknowledgment of his artistic and abolitionist achievements at a…

This Photo shows the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Edmonton in 1921. It was both a place of worship and a social and political centre for Black families to congregate. Through the church, they built networks, youth programs, choirs,…