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Out To Defend Ourselves

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). ...

Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes

This important book sheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives.

Harvey Amani Whitfield unearths the stories ...

The Fire That Time

Edited by Ronald Cummings & Nalini Mohabir
Categories: History

In 1969, in one of the most significant Black student protests in North American history, Caribbean students called out discriminatory pedagogical practices at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia ...

Soulman

By (author) Rocky Johnson & Scott Teal
Categories: Wrestling

Though these days he’s known best as the Rock’s father, Rocky Johnson was one of the most successful wrestlers of the 1970s and 80s. Here he tells his story: homeless in Nova Scotia and Toronto at ...