Jamie Bradburn writes about how his father’s love for history sparked his own passion for storytelling, and what he’s uncovered about Black history in the town where he was raised.
Archive the Diaspora’s Miriam Makeba Environmental Youth Program connects Black diasporic youth in Kitchener-Waterloo to land, memory, and storytelling as living archival practice. Author Celine Isimbi writes about how the environment can be a kind of archive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Ornella Nzindukiyimana shares her strategy for combing through the archives to find treasures of Black sport histories.
Looking to submit a post to MOBA? Find the guidelines and the submission link here.
An update on MOBA Project’s development.
The archives are an important method for documenting and preserving Black history. But that doesn’t mean they are impervious to improvement. Read more about how they could do better and what is needed from researchers.