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.
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.
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An update on MOBA Project’s development.