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The Black History Walking Tour was sparked by students’ concern over the near loss of a historic building — home to Canada’s first Black labour union.

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.

Book review: In Sporting Justice, Miriam Wright, an associate professor of history at the University of Windsor, explores more than three decades of Black baseball.

Decades before the civil rights movement, B.A. Husbands championed racial equality for Nova Scotia’s Black community.

Book review: Harriet’s Legacies intertwines the work of Black artists and academics. Governor General’s Literary Award winner George Elliott Clarke contributes powerful poems written from the perspectives of, among others, African- Canadian artist Edward Bannister and Black Victoria Cross winner William Hall.

Cross-Border Cosmopolitans offers fresh insights into Black liberation movements in the twentieth century, focusing on the transnational efforts of Black North Americans of American, Caribbean, and Canadian descent.

Book review: Quiet Rebels brings attention to the first women lawyers of Jewish, Black, Chinese and Indigenous heritage.

Hidden Histories fostered a deeper connection to the history of Saint John, New Brunswick, while highlighting overlooked stories of First Nations, Black, and LGBTQ+ communities.