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Musician and singer, Faith Nolan, performing her song "Jailhouse Blues" at the OFL.

A song written by an African-Canadian woman, Faith Nolan, who is an activist in the anti-black and anti-discrimination community.

A biographical website detailing the life of Faith Nolan and her contributions to anti-discrimination activism.

Pages 2-3 of the Nova Scotia Gleaner, a newspaper published monthly in Sydney, N.S. and edited by F.A. Hamilton. Pages 2-3 are an article named "New Waterford Notes - New Hall Opened." The article talks about the opening of the New Waterford UNIA…

"Riding The Rails: Black Railroad Workers in Canada and the United States" was published by the Labour journal in 2002. The article discusses the formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP). Founded in the United States by A. Philip…

This is a poster created by Emory Douglas and posted in the New York Times entitled “Afro-American Solidarity” in 1969, which depicts the image of a Black Panther (a woman part of the Black Panther social and political organization in the United…

Selwyn Jacob was a film director who found that Black people were not being represented properly in film. He was determined to change this and found his success in the Canadian Prairies. Many people may not have liked the Black representation in…

Guadeloupean immigrant woman headed to Montreal as a domestic worker, 1911

Menelik Hall—Sydney, Cape Breton. The hall was constructed between 1935 and 1936 by Black residents of Sydney. In the hall Marcus Garvey gave his "the work that has been done" speech in 1937 to members of the Sydney branch of the UNIA. This was…