African/Black Nova Scotian Resources

The United Nation's International Decade for People of African Descent and Nova Scotia's Ministry of African Nova Scotian Affairs recognize that students of African descent continue to experience inequities.

This case study explores how anti-Blackness affects Black women directly and indirectly, contributing to the existing scholarship about over-policing of Black communities.

Whitfield, Harvey Amani. Acadiensis 46.1 (2017): 213-232.

By Rachel Zellars. April 14, . From Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS).

Researched and written for the NS Human Rights Commission by Dr. Scot Wortley, University of Toronto, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies

Redressing Inequity-Empowering Black Learners

Historic Black settlements in Nova Scotia tell a long-neglected story and through studying them we can unlock invaluable, under-represented knowledge. On a journey of rediscovery, Shawn Smith and Laurice Downey present Loyalist Connection.

Established in 1983, to Protect, Preserve and Promote the history and culture of African Nova Scotians. The Centre is a museum and cultural gathering place, where the rich history of Nova Scotians of African Descent can be discovered and explored.

Nova Scotia Archives resource includes court records, maps, photographs, newspapers, land records and rare published materials.

An innovative, interactive multidisciplinary project that celebrates Halifax’s vibrant Black community that has flourished since the 1700s and has been captured as a collection of stories, in the form of short videos, about the rich cultural life of the community. The stories are about personalities, sites, and events of historic significance to the African Nova Scotian community and are presented by local performance poets and professional actors that combine storytelling with archival photographs and film.

The vision of the centre is: To promote universal recognition of the ancestry of the Black Loyalist as a nascent Canadian heritage community, having been among the original settlers of Canada. To cultivate and contribute to the economic prosperity of the Black Loyalist community through participation in community development initiatives.

This site explores an untold story of our nation's history: how Canada became the home of the first settlements of free blacks outside Africa. From Canada's Digital Collections.