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African Nova Scotian Affairs

Anne Bishop, Becoming an Ally.

Black Cultural Centre For Nova Scotia

Black Halifax: Stories from Here

Black Loyalist Heritage Centre

Black Women’s Blueprint, “The Black Women’s Truth And Reconciliation Commission On Sexual Assault Archival Information.”

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

CBC

• 'A community of widows': How African-Nova Scotians are confronting a history of environmental racism
• Black people 3 times more likely to be street checked in Halifax, police say
• Black people in Halifax 6 times more likely to be street checked than whites
• Black people made up 41 per cent of RCMP street checks around Halifax
• Black police officer calls for immediate moratorium on street checks
• Black, Indigenous prisoners over-represented in Nova Scotia jails
• 'Call it what it is — white ignorance': Gentrification frays the social fabric in Halifax's North End 
• N.S. man guilty of hate crime in cross-burning
• 'Polite racism,' inequality still linger in N.S., say minority groups
• Racist graffiti sprayed on Halifax elementary school
• Street checks permanently banned in N.S. after review calls them illegal

Chanae Parsons, Delmore Buddy Daye Learning Institute, “Africentricity- YOUbuntu: Youth Mentorship Project.”

City News, “African-Nova Scotian activists push for discussion about slavery reparations.”

Council of Parties, Third Public Report, Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, Restorative Inquiry, Fall 2018.

Conversations with Kate MacDonald, Shianne Gordon, Robert Wright, and El Jones.

CTV News, “Former orphanage residents allege child abuse, neglect, beatings and sexual assault.”

David Este and Wanda Thomas Bernard, “Spirituality Among African Nova Scotians: A Key to Survival in Canadian Society.”

Death of the Strong Black Woman

Dorothy Roberts, “Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty.”

Franchesca Ramsey

• 5 Tips for Being an Ally
• If Microaggressions Happened to White People

Global News, “UN report on racism validates African Nova Scotian experience: Senator.”

Guide to Allyship

Halifax Media Coop, “Being Black and Out.”

Halifax Public Libraries

Harvard, “Implicit Association Test.

Joy DeGruy, “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.”

Oxford Dictionaries, “Privilege.” 

Peggy MacIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.”

Psychology Today, “Microaggressions: More than Just Race.”

Rebecca Epstein, Jamilia J. Blake and Thalia González, Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls' Childhood, Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, 2017.

Reflections, “Becoming Trustworthy White Allies.”

Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present, 2017.

Saleem Reshamwala, New York Times, Implicit Bias: Peanut Butter and Jelly Racism.

Shared Hope, “Trafficking Terms.”

St. Lawrence University, “ADINKRA - Cultural Symbols of the Asante people.”

Tamara Winfrey-Harris, The Sisters are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America, 2015.

The Chronicle Herald, “When the Marginalized Speak Up, Listen.” Opinion Piece, January 26, 2018.

The Coast, “Ancestral Roots Awards offers overdue recognition to young Black leaders.”

The Guardian, “'It’s like we're seen as animals': black men on their vulnerability and resilience”

The Nova Scotia Advocate, “Halifax police are deeply racist, African Nova Scotians say at police street check community meeting.”

The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children Restorative Inquiry.

The Nova Scotia Museum

Torontoist, “Canada Has a Black Incarceration Problem.”

Vera Institute of Justice, “Young Men of Color and the Other Side of Harm.”

VICE, "Trans Women of Color Face an Epidemic of Violence and Murder.”