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Black schoolteachers strove to educate children while resisting racial injustice.

With funding from the John Bragg Award, the story of Black activist Rocky Jones is arriving onstage in Halifax.

With its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, the north Halifax community known as Africville was eventually home to eighty mainly black families.

Canadian boxer Tommy Burns was eager to take on all comers, regardless of their race. But in 1908, he lost his world heavyweight title to a Black boxer — infuriating white society. The groundbreaking choice to fight Jack Johnson ended up costing Burns his boxing career. Watch the video of this famous bout.

Afua Cooper Transcript

This lesson will ask students to use creative, academic, and observational skills to define terms which are important to understanding Afro Indigenous ancestry and to reflect on how media has been used over time to express important ideas about justice and ethnicity.

African Canadian History: An Untold Story Transcript

Famous the world over, for a lifetime of luxurious comfort and warmth — Hudson's Bay Point Blankets.

How training, timing, and new battle tactics helped Canada capture Vimy Ridge. 

Hill is best known for his masterpiece, The Book of Negroes, which has sold more than 700,000 copies, making it one of the most popular books in Canadian publishing history. The novel has been translated into French and adapted into a mini-series for television, giving its powerful message an even wider audience.