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This watercolour painting showcases an overseer supervising two enslaved women as they work on a plantation. Although the scene takes place in Virginia, it somewhat reflects the labour performed by enslaved Black Canadians. They carried out similar…

This portrait shows John Eardley Wilmot, a British judge involved in politics during the late 18th century. His work formed part of the legal framework that allowed Black and white Loyalists to cross over into Canada, as he had been tasked with…

Black and White Still Image of a Minstrel Show occurring at Orangeville Lions Club in Ontario, during the 1950s. Pictured are around 2 dozen men on a stage, wearing face paint to darken their skin.

This is another news report, entitled “Chinese-Canadians enter the professions in the 1950s”, of archived content from the CBC and reporter Bill Cunningham, originally aired in 1957. Now sufficiently distanced from 1945, the end of the Second World…

This was an advertisement from 1993 made by the Bisexual Women’s Anthology in the Sister Vision Press opening with, “CALLING ALL BISEXUAL WOMEN”. The intended purpose of this advertisement was to gather bisexual women to write an anthology about…

This is a flyer advertising a discussion forum hosted by Black CAP (The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention) surrounding HIV positive Black women. This is one of many public initiatives launched by the organizations aimed at educating different…

The cast of Black Theatre Workshop's production of The Gingerbread Lady takes a bow.

Actors from Black Theatre Workshop’s production of The Adventuress of a Black Girl in Search of God.

The thumbnail from Black Theatre Workshop's video in which the interview Tyrone Benskin about the impact and goals of Black Theater Workshop.