Register of British Slave Traders reveals how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in the country’s politics, economy, institutions and culture

David Olusoga explores our most comprehensive picture yet of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its role in the making of Modern Britain

A few weeks ago I biked over to The Guild park. Known for its collection of modern Toronto “ruins”, a bonus to visiting the park is its unobstructed view of Lake Ontario. Gazing from cliffs high above...

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Working with dolls, family photographs, fabric scraps and other found objects, she became a leading figure in assemblage art.

Oliver Jones, the Montreal-born legendary jazz musician who performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival every year from 1981 to 1999, has died at the age of 91.

By now, most City Hall watchers know that Brad Bradford has selected, as a pointed wedge issue, a proposal to rename Sankofa Square while simultaneously using its apparently neglected condition as a s...

Toronto's Black community is almost as old as the community itself. The first census ever done in York identified 15 black residents. Some of them were slaves, but some of them were free persons who c...

We’re thrilled to be taking part in the City of Toronto’s annual event. This year we’re taking a new approach that lets you explore

One of the Canada's oldest Black churches faces an uncertain future with the owner applying to repeal the 150-year-old building's s heritage designation.

Black graduations are optional celebrations complementary to faculty-based convocation ceremonies, and they remind graduates they are powerfully supported.

During the colonial era of present-day Ontario, more than 600 Black men, women, and children were enslaved, many of them by white loyalists such as Matthew Elliott, one of Upper Canada’s largest slave...

The new mandated learning expectations on Black Canadian history have materialized, but they fall short of expectations.

A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...

Budget cuts label Parks Canada library “lower priority,” risking closure and decommissioning of 190,000+ unique research materials crucial for environmental history.

Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

You may not have heard of her — but her act of resistance helped lead to the first anti-slavery legislation in Canada.

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Event happening at the Gibson Art Museum, Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 6-8pm. Registration required.

Several hundred citizens of Marshall, Michigan, helped Adam and Sarah Crosswhite escape slavery and kidnapping and flee to Canada.

Exclusive: Author of The Crown’s Silence tells how navy and monarchy protected slave trade for hundreds of years The British crown and the navy expanded and protected the trade in enslaved African people for hundreds of years, unprecedented research into the monarchy’s historical ties to slavery has found. The Crown’s Silence, a book by the historian Brooke Newman, follows the Guardian’s 2023 Cost of the crown report, which explored the British monarchy’s hidden ties to transatlantic slavery. Continue reading...

President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the U.S. to be reviewed and potentially removed.

In the age of Trump, AFT's Fedrick Ingram outlines a blueprint for Black educational power.