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Dates to Remember

February is Black History Month

August 1 is Emancipation Day in Ontario

Resources

Black History Canada Website (Historica Canada)
Black History Month Page (Government of Canada)
23 historical black Canadians you should know (CBC)
Anti-Black Racism in Canada Report (African Canadian Legal Clinic)
Black History Month in Canada (Radio Canada International)
The Jamaican Community in Canada (Statistics Canada)
The Haitian Community in Canada (Statistics Canada)
Addressing the Discrimination Experience by Somali Canadians and Racialized LGBT Homeless Youth Report (Ryerson University)
The African Community in Canada (Statistics Canada)
African Canadians (Historica Canada)
The Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black by Desmond Cole (Toronto Life)
The suffocating experience of being black in Canada by Anthony Morgan (The Toronto Star)
Canada's Long History of Anti-Black Racism (Montreal Gazette)
Black-on-Black Racism: The Hazards of Implicit Bias (The Atlantic)
Black History Month: An interview with Rosemary Sadlier (Canadian Human Rights Museum)
Black Canadian History Timeline (Historica Canada)
Slavery in Canada Timeline (CBC)
Simcoe Day: Canada's roots in slavery and the historic abolition (CBC)
The Complex Face of Black Canada by George Elliot Clarke (MgGill News)
Unequal justice: Aboriginal and black inmates disproportionately fill Ontario jails (Toronto Star)

Multimedia

Being Black in Canada (CBC 2016) (22min40s)
Being Black in Canada (CBC 2015) (22min34s)
Being Black in Canada (CBC 2014) (44min3s)
Being Black in Canadian Culture (The Agenda with Steve Paikin) (49min26s)
Black Like Me (The Agenda with Steve Paikin) (21min34s)
Teaching black history in Canada (CBC) (4min9s)
Black Radicalism in Canada (The Agenda with Steve Paikin) (25min23s)
Viola Desmond | "Rosa Parks of Canada" (CBC) (5min53s)
Viola Desmond Heritage Minute (Historica Canada) (1min)
Long Road to Justice - The Viola Desmond Story (Province of Nova Scotia) (44min23s)
Proud of our History - Blacks in Canada - Black History Month (Citizenship and Immigration Canada) (1min)
Being Black in Canada: The Somali Experience (2min18s)

Organizations

African Canadian Legal Clinic
Ontario Black History Society