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In this clip from an interview with Fil Fraser. He is speaking about the radio and how it shaped his life. He realized that he might have limitations as a Black Canadian, but it did not stop him from pursuing what he loved. He hoped that because no…

This page from a journal article, falls into the very start of the Black Canadian Directing movement. The civil rights movement had an undeniable impact on Canada, and it enforced new motives of the Black identity. This is seen through the emergence…

In her journal article, Blacks on Canadian Railways, Agnes Calliste breaks down the times of Black men working as sleeping car porters into three periods. The first is from 1917-1939. Black men were excluded from railway unions, so the Order of…

This was a photo taken of Afua Cooper, who helped build queer-inclusive Black feminist circles in Toronto in the 1980s-90s. She is best known as a poet and a scholar of Black Canadian history, but she helped lay the foundation for queer safe spaces…

A mural depicting musicians who had mad a significant impact in Toronto, such as Dianne Brooks and Jackie Shane. This is incredibly important as the mural recognizes how important Black musicians are to the history of music in Toronto.

An article about Contrast the Black run newspaper started in response to the Sir George Williams affair.

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…

A Section of Hogan's Alley Containing a few Houses and People

This map shows the land divisions, settlements, and waterways of Shelburne County, Nova Scotia—including the area around Birchtown. Founded in 1783 by Black Loyalists, Birchtown would go on to become the largest free Black community in colonial…