Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives, under ...
Although many know about Jackie Robinson’s experiences breaking major league baseball’s colour barrier in 1947, few are familiar with the Chatham Coloured All-Stars, a Black Canadian team from 1930s ...
This first critical history of a street gang in a Canadian city is a result of a four-year collaboration between a university professor (Ted Rutland) and the leader of les Bélangers (Maxime Aurélien). ...
Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award
Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2024
A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships ...
Seize temps noirs pour apprendre à dire kuei raconte ces moments et ces gestes dont on ne parle pas et qui pourtant illustrent les proximités et les solidarités entre les communautés noires et autochtones ...
#BlackInSchool is Habiba Cooper Diallo’s high school journal, in which she documents, processes, and resists the systemic racism, microaggressions, stereotypes, and outright racism she experienced in ...
Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a jambalaya — a dialogue between image and ...
The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, which quickly spread outside the borders of the United States. The movement’s message found fertile ...
The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairies.
Cheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in Calgary and struggled against the many ways ...
Prez grows up in the 50s in segregated Washington, DC. Street smart and skeptical, but with a code of ethics, he, like every black kid, wants to be Malcolm, Martin or a “soul brother. ” Invited to ...