Where MOBA connects Black archives to stories, artistic practices, and communities.
Vintage Black Canada is a digital archive on Instagram started by Aaron Francis, featuring photographs from his family collection. By centring personal and everyday moments, the archive uses family history to tell a wider story of Black life and the African Diaspora in Canada.
Micah J. Nelson, the granddaughter of George E. Carter, Ontario’s first Black judge, writes about her family’s story from 1950s Etobicoke to present day.
Nicole S. Bernhardt’s grandfather was the first Black principal in Ontario. Here’s what she says you should know about his life.
Social media can be a great way to create community archives. In this interview, Choltu shares why she started an Instagram account dedicated to Toronto’s Black archives.
Dr. Carolyn Whitzman takes us beyond the pages of her book Clara at the Door to tell her journey of archival research.
In Part 2 of this series, Syriah Bailey writes about the iconic Black queer activists in Toronto you should to know, and where you can find records of them at The ArQuives.
The ArQuives, based in Toronto, holds a large collection of materials on Black queer activism. Syriah Bailey writes about what you can find on their shelves.
Bap! Bap! Mark Campbell explains his methodology, theory, and hopes behind his 2024 installation, Furnace Slaps.
Preserving the locations of historic Black burial grounds in Ontario is important. So is documenting their existence. In this blog post, William Felepchuk writes about why.
If you’ve attended the funeral of a Caribbean person, you may have flipped through the pages of a funeral booklet. Antoinette Seymour writes about their cultural importance.
