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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Ornella Nzindukiyimana shares her strategy for combing through the archives to find treasures of Black sport histories.