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This early review documents one of Bannister’s first major public successes. It helps track how his reputation grew despite the racist skepticism circulating in white-led art circles early on.

This report publicly acknowledges Bannister’s medal-winning success. It demonstrates how his recognition complicated racist assumptions about Black artistic capability on the national stage.

Black Theatre Workshop interviewing their former artistic director on the importance, impact and goals of the theatre group.

Mrs. Lepera at her convocation surrounded by her past and present self talking about the importance of integrity in her life and her line of work.

This catalogue provides the formal record of Bannister’s award-winning participation in the Centennial Exhibition. It is essential evidence of how his talent was recognized at a national level despite racial prejudice.

Photo taken at St. Philip's African Orthodox Church in Whitney Pier. Part of a larger network of churches that came to be in New York in the 1920s, originated by George Alexander McGuire from the belief that Black Episcopalians should have their own…

Black Theatre Canada's founder Vera Cudjoe discusses why and how she started Black Theatre Canada in Toronto.

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…