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Black Lives Matter (Canada): Visual Media & Archival Resources

Black History Month Events

See Ontario Black History Society

Search Google for Black History Month events in Toronto or in Canada here:

Web Videos

A New World is Possible: A Conversation on Anti-Black Racism
Keynote Speaker: Dionne Brand; with Sandy Hudson, Dr. Denise O'Neil Green & Rodney Diverlus
Black Lives Matter TO - Videos
BLM Freedom School - Closing Action
Black Lives Matter YouTube Channel

Film

The Black Lives Matter Film Syllabus, Tribeca Film

Toronto Black Film Festival

Films on "race" - at York including:

Photography

CBC - BLM Photographers
Power to the People: Photography and Video of Black Repression and Protest
Winter 2017 - Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) and Black Artist's Networks Dialogue (BAND) team up
Black Artist's Networks Dialogue (BAND) - on Facebook

Archival Resources and Links:

Selected Articles

Community-Based Approaches to Archives from the BLM Movement
By Yvonne Ng
Expanding #ArchivesForBlackLives to Traditional Archival Repositories
By Jarrett M. Drake
The Strange Career of Jim Crow Archives: Race, Space, and History in the Mid-Twentieth- Century American South
By Alex H. Poole

Pushing Buttons, Pushing Stories: The Jean Augustine Political Buttons Collection

New Exhibit featuring the archives of Jean Augustine, as a complement to the Black History Month Symposium at York University, February 2017: