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One of our most popular issues, this issue features some amazing stories and examples of the ways Black Canadians built and shaped this country.

The misadventure of three young boys exposed negligence in New Brunswick's mining industry.

Many Canadians have stories that wind back to families with Indigenous heritage in both Africa and what is now Canada.

Book Review: In Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Communities, historian Ruth Holmes Whitehead offers a finely crafted and carefully researched glimpse into the lives of slaves who fled the fledgling United States as Britain’s last stronghold, in New York, began to crumble.

They have supported and uplifted each other and their families and communities, fought discrimination and created social change.

Q & A: Author and social-justice advocate Rosemary Sadlier looks back on her integral role in this significant national recognition.

The roots of Montreal’s Black community reach back four hundred years.

Book Review: The fact that French and British settlers colonized Quebec is part of what makes it an interesting location for the discussion of race and social politics — even more so because Montreal was a prominent site for the black power movement in the 1960s. Author David Austin recounts how people exercised their right for freedom while navigating colonization, slavery, and dehumanization.

Book Review: The Man with the Black Valise could best be described as two halves of an unusual whole.

In this special issue of Kayak we are joined by guest editor Natasha Henry who shares some amazing stories and examples of the ways Black Canadians built and shaped this country. This is an expanded version of the 2018 issue.